Challenging airway in a paediatric patient impaled by a freezer pop stick

BMJ Case Rep. 2017 Aug 3:2017:bcr2017220620. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-220620.

Authors

Edward J Park¹, Alexandra G Espinel², Rahul K Shah², Srijaya K Reddy³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
² Division of Otolaryngology, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
³ Division of Anaesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: anaesthesia; emergency medicine; paediatrics; radiology.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Anesthesia, General*
Child
Foreign Bodies / diagnostic imaging*
Foreign Bodies / surgery*
Humans
Intubation, Intratracheal / methods*
Laryngoscopy / methods*
Oropharynx / diagnostic imaging
Oropharynx / injuries*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Video Recording