As the duty anaesthetist receiving emergency bookings, you take a phone call from the ENT registrar, who is in the Emergency Department with a 26-year-old man requiring urgent surgical drainage of a suspected peritonsillar abscess.
The registrar reports that the patient is very distressed, refuses to lie flat and cannot open his mouth more than 1.5cm.
Sections covered in this viva
Assessment of airway and discussion of optionsManagement of intubationPost-extubation bleeding with aspiration and reintubation