Abstract
Assessing a difficult airway is one of the challenging problem in anaesthesia. Managing the laryngeal tumor depends on experience of anaesthesiologist, needs a careful preoperative evaluation and close cooperation with ENT surgeons are mandatory. Awake fiberoptic intubation is sometimes very challenging in patients with laryngeal carcinoma. We would like to present a case of 50-year-old male who attended emergency department with stridor and dyspnea taken up for emergency tracheostomy. He is a known case of possible laryngeal tumour. We would like to discuss the Anaesthetic management of this case.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Balasandhiya.P
Postgraduate, Department of Anaesthesia
Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v8i9.36
