Use of the Frova® Intubating Introducer for Interval Ventilation and Debulking with Laser in a Difficult Airway - Abstract
Difficult airway is a clinical situation in which a conventionally trained anaesthesiologisthas trouble with either facemask ventilation of the upper airway, difficulty with tracheal intubation, or both. The Frova® intubating introducer (Cook Medical, Bloomington, USA) is anintubating bougie with a high success rate for tracheal intubation. In this article, we describe the successful use of the Frova® intubating introducer for interval ventilation and debulking with laser in a patient with a difficult airway. A 37-year-old male patient presented to the Emergency Department with a severely compromised airway due to Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP). Inability to intubate with an endotracheal tube, the Frova® was introduced and kept in situ. This provided us enough time to debulk the lesion and secure the airway with an Endo-Tracheal tube thus tiding over the difficult situation. This case report is the first of its kind describing the use of an intubating bougie for interval ventilation during laser debulking.