The i-gel supraglottic airway device improves airway management during endobronchial ablative therapy under general anesthesia: a case report.

ABSTRACT: Endobronchial ablative therapy (EAT) in patients with preexisting obstructive airway disease can cause hypoxemia because bronchoscope insertion interferes with ventilation and a low fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO₂) is essential to avoid airway fire. A man in his early 50s with moderately severe obstructive airway disease was scheduled for EAT for treatment of tracheal papillomatosis. Ventilation and oxygenation would have been difficult because of narrowing of the endotracheal tube by bronchoscopic insertion and a low FiO₂; therefore, an i-gel supraglottic airway device with a larger inner diameter was inserted. All visible intratracheal papillomas were ablated by a potassium titanyl phosphate laser through the bronchoscopic port that passed through the lumen of the

SUBMITTER: Chung MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9358558 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature