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. Y1 - 2017 N1 - 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 - 2024/10/09 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146618421 ER -