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Evidence of pulmonary aspiration during difficult airway management of a morbidly obese patient with the LMA CTrach.

Abdi W, Ndoko S, Amathieu R, Dhonneur G

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jean Verdier University Hospital of Paris (APHP), Av du 14 Juillet, 93143 Bondy, France. Paris 13 School of Medicine, 93000 Bobigny, France.

We describe a pulmonary aspiration that occurred during tracheal intubation with the LMA CTrach (SEBAC, Pantin, France) in a male morbidly obese patient (178 cm height, BMI=48 kg m(-2)) admitted for elective gastric banding. Our report suggests that manipulations of the CTrach such as Up-manoeuvre may lead to pulmonary aspiration in the case of regurgitated gastric content.

Published 23 January 2008 in Br J Anaesth, 100(2): 275-7.
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