• Anaesth Intensive Care · Aug 1999

    Case Reports

    Management of a pregnant patient with airway obstruction secondary to goitre.

    • A W Reid, A D Warmington, and L M Wilkinson.
    • Department of Anaesthesia, National Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.
    • Anaesth Intensive Care. 1999 Aug 1;27(4):415-7.

    AbstractA case of airway obstruction in advanced pregnancy is presented. The patient was successfully managed with an awake fibreoptic intubation performed orally followed by a caesarean section and thyroidectomy as a combined procedure. On resection, a thyroid gland weighing 370 g was removed. The patient made an uneventful recovery.

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