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