Fiberoptic‐guided tracheal intubation under precise anesthesia and topicalization with spontaneous respiration preservation for an uncooperative patient with severe postburn mentosternal contracture

Abstract

Airway management of patients with difficult airways is a challenge to the anesthesiologists and awake tracheal intubation is the recommended strategy. Successful fiberoptic‐guided tracheal intubation under precise anesthesia and topicalization with spontaneous respiration preservation was achieved in an uncooperative patient with severe postburn mentosternal contracture scheduled for release of contracture.