Difficult airway after late postoperative bleeding in a case of total thyroidectomy, tracheal resection and reconstruction

• Main Authors: Mukul Chandra Kapoor (Author), Shaloo Garg (Author), Binita Jaiswal (Author), Sharan Choudhri (Author), Prashant Saxena (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Airway management is a challenge in surgery involving the trachea. Methods: A lady with carcinoma thyroid infiltrating into trachea was taken up for total thyroidectomy and tracheal resection/reconstruction surgery. Airway was secured with fiber-optic bronchoscope guided tracheal intubat...