TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Airway Management of a Patient in Prone Position
A1  - Drapeau, Dennis
A1  - R. Hung, Orlando
A2  - Hung, Orlando R.
A2  - Murphy, Michael F.
PY  - 2017
T2  - Hung's Difficult and Failed Airway Management, 3e
AB  - A  35-year-old  intoxicated  male  179  cm  tall  and  weighing  110  kg  (BMI  34  kg·m−2)  presents  to  the  emergency  room  with  a  12-inch  hunting  knife  lodged  in  his  upper  thoracic  spine  after  an  altercation  at  a  cottage  party.  Initial  examination  reveals  normal  vital  signs  in  the  prone  position,  a  reassuring  airway,  and  normal  screening  neurological  exam.  Initial  x-ray  studies  confirm  the  knife  enters  at  the  level  of  T3  to  T4  and  traverses  the  right  side  of  the  spinal  canal  with  the  tip  of  the  knife  embedded  in  the  T4  vertebral  body.  The  neurosurgeon  wishes  to  take  the  patient  to  the  operating  room  for  an  urgent  wound  exploration  and  removal  of  the  foreign  body  under  general  anesthesia  with  careful  continuous  neurological  monitoring  throughout  the  procedure.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/20
UR  - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146618421
ER  -