Successful Endotracheal Intubation Using Suction-Assisted Laryngoscopy Assisted Decontamination Technique and a Head-Down Tilt Position during Massive Regurgitation
- Author:
Insung CHOI
1
;
Young Woong CHOI
;
Sang Hyuk HAN
;
Ji Heui LEE
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- From:Soonchunhyang Medical Science 2020;26(2):75-79
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Some of the challenges in intensive care, anesthesia, and emergency medicine would be airway management in an actively vomiting patient or a bloody airway. We experienced a patient with an excessively full stomach (at least 3 L) due to gastric outlet obstruction, although he was scheduled for elective surgery. Despite such circumstances, we successfully intubated him using the suctionassisted laryngoscopy assisted decontamination technique with the patient in a head-down tilt position during massive regurgitation while avoiding resultant pulmonary aspiration.
