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The intubating laryngeal mask for maxillo-facial trauma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2006

F. Agrò ,
J. Brimacombe ,
A. I. J. Brain ,
L. Marchionni  and
R. Cataldo
F. Agrò
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia, University School of Medicine LIU Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
J. Brimacombe
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, Australia
A. I. J. Brain
Affiliation:
Royal, Berkshire Hospital, Reading and Institute of, Laryngology, University of London, United Kingdom
L. Marchionni
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia, Policlinico Universitario, Rome, Italy
R. Cataldo
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia, University School of Medicine LIU Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
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Abstract

We report the successful use of the intubating laryngeal mask airway in a patient with maxillo-facial trauma for whom the facemask and laryngoscope were relatively contraindicated and the fibreoptic scope potentially difficult to use.

Keywords

intubating laryngeal maskmaxillo-facial traumadifficult intubation
Type
Case Report
Information
European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , April 1999 , pp. 263 - 264
Copyright
1999 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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