Indian Journal of Clinical Anaesthesia
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2

Thoracic epidural anaesthesia-A promising alternative for a patient with difficult airway

  • Author:
  • Charuta Gadkari1, Priyanka Pravin Deshmukh2,, Megha Tajne3, Ankush Wasnik4
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 294 to 296

1Associate Professor, Dept. of Anaesthesia, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

2Junior Resident, Dept. of Anaesthesia, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

3Associate Professor, Dept. of Anaesthesia, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

4Junior Resident, Dept. of Anaesthesia, NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

*Corresponding Author: Email: priyankapdeshmukh@gmail.com

Online published on 24 September, 2018.

Abstract

A patient with post burn contracture of neck and Marjolin's ulcer on anterior chest wall was posted for wide local excision and skin grafting. Skin graft was taken from lower limb under unilateral subarachnoid block and wide local excision of ulcer was performed under thoracic epidural anaesthesia. In the background of pre-formulated strategy in view of anticipated difficult airway, regional anaesthesia is a well established and safe alternative in expert hands.

Keywords

Anterior chest wall surgery, difficult airway, Thoracic epidural, Post burn contracture (PBC)