Anaesthesia Viva

Intellectual Disability with Foreign Body Aspiration

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Clinical Stem

2022.1
You are running the emergency theatre in a regional hospital on a Sunday morning when you receive a phone call from the emergency department (ED) consultant. A 23-year-old man with an intellectual disability has presented with a productive cough and haemoptysis after a choking episode the previous evening whilst eating dinner. The ED consultant asks you to provide assistance with sedation for a CT chest due to the patient's non-compliance with lying still.

Sections covered in this viva

Sedation AssessmentAnaesthesia for Rigid BronchoscopyUpper Airway Obstruction in PACU

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