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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 33, 502-504, Copyright © 1986 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Fibreoptic Awake Intubation - A Method of Topical Anaesthesia and Orotracheal Intubation

A. D. SUTHERLAND MBBS FFARACS1 and J. P. SALE MBBS FFARCS1

1 Department of Anaesthesia, Foothills Hospital at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Address correspondence to: Dr. A.D. Sutherland, Department of Anaesthesia, Foothills Hospital at the University of Calgary, 29th St NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 2T9.

Three cases of trismus caused by oropharyngeal sepsis are described where fibreoptic-assisted awake intubation using an oral airway intubator and nebulised lidocaine was safely and successfully achieved.

Key Words: COMPLICATIONS; airway, abscess • EQUIPMENT; airway intubator, fibreoptic bronchoscope • TECHNIQUE; local anaesthetic, awake intubation






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