A Technique for Bronchoscopic Intubation During High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy

David Berlin; Inderjit Singh; Igor Barjaktarevic; Oren Friedman

doi:10.1177/0885066615582020

A Technique for Bronchoscopic Intubation During High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy

J Intensive Care Med. 2016 Mar;31(3):213-5. doi: 10.1177/0885066615582020. Epub 2015 Apr 23.

Authors

David Berlin¹, Inderjit Singh², Igor Barjaktarevic³, Oren Friedman²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA berlind@med.cornell.edu.
² Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

PMID: 25911299
DOI: 10.1177/0885066615582020

Abstract

Despite preoxygenation, critical hypoxemia can occur during intubation. We describe a technique of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen support during bronchoscopic intubation.

Keywords: critical care; critical illness; endotracheal intubation; respiratory failure.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Blood Gas Analysis
Emergency Medicine
Humans
Hypoxia / therapy*
Intubation, Intratracheal / instrumentation*
Intubation, Intratracheal / methods
Male
Middle Aged
Oxygen Inhalation Therapy / instrumentation*
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
Respiratory Insufficiency / therapy*
Sepsis / complications*
Sepsis / therapy
Treatment Outcome