Managing a critical airway with an unloaded single-use flexible bronchoscope as bougie: The SUBB-approach

• Background: Emergency airway management can be challenging for every emergency department (ED) and failure may result in serious injury or death. Various approaches have been presented over the years and robust guidelines for the management of difficult airways have been established by several international anesthesiology societies. Technology develops rapidly, which makes new, combined approaches for the management for critical airways possible. Case presentation: In this case, we present novel method for the management of a difficult emergency airway in a morbidly obese 47-year-old male with a large palpable mass in the central neck, were cricothyroidotomy was deemed difficult. Conclusion: The Single-use Bronchoscope as Bougie (SUBB) approach illustrates a new, rapid, and seemingly safe additional approach for the management of difficult airways with equipment found in most EDs using a single-use flexible bronchoscope as a bougie through a supraglottic airway device.

Ämnesord

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Oto-rhino-laryngologi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Otorhinolaryngology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Airway devices

Bronchoscope

Case report

Difficult airway

Intubation

LMA

SAD

SGA

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