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Sublingual airway ultrasound imaging

2008; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 55; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/bf03016357

1496-8975

Ban C. H. Tsui, Carolyn M. W. Hui,

Trauma Management and Diagnosis

Third, after tracheal tube insertion, the wand should be examined to ensure that it has been withdrawn intact.if visible damage of the wand is found and a foreign body in the ETT is suspected, spontaneous ventilation should be continued, insofar as is possible, to avoid forcing the disconnected object distally with positive-pressure ventilation into the tracheobronchial tree. 4in our particular case, in the absence of cuff inflation, spontaneous ventilation could be provided without undue difficulty via the space between the ETT and trachea.fourth, the lodging sites of foreign bodies within the airway can be determined by direct laryngoscopy and fibreoptic bronchoscopy.When a diagnosis of a foreign body in the ETT is established, the ETT should be gently removed, after which, reintubation can be performed.A foreign body within the tracheobronchial tree must be immediately retrieved with the aid of flexible bronchoscope biopsy forceps under the fibreoptic bronchoscopy. 2