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Year : 2011 | Volume
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Anesthetic considerations of central airway obstruction
Abdelazeem El-Dawlatly1, Sami Alnassar2, Ahmed Abodonya1, Nada Almutlaq1, Waseem Hajjar2
1 Department of Anesthesia, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Thoracic Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Abdelazeem El-Dawlatly Department of Anesthesia, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia
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DOI: 10.4103/1658-354X.84113
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Central airway obstruction (CAO) is a serious presentation of lung cancer and associated chest diseases. It presents a real challenge to the anesthesiologist because usually the patient admitted to the hospital as an emergency case with high grade dyspnea scheduled to undergo rigid bronchoscopy for diagnostic and possible therapeutic interventions. In this case report, we described the anesthetic management of a patient who was admitted to our hospital with CAO. |
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