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Case Reports
Difficult Airway Management Caused by Local Anesthetic Allergy During Emergent Cesarean Delivery: A Case Report.
- Courtney L Maxey-Jones, Alec Palmerton, Jocelyn R Farmer, and Brian T Bateman.
- From the *Department of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; Departments of †Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, and ‡Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
- A A Case Rep. 2017 Aug 1; 9 (3): 84-86.
AbstractDifficult airway management in the gravid patient is a well-described phenomenon. We present a case of emergent cesarean delivery complicated by a "cannot intubate, cannot ventilate" scenario that was later determined to be secondary to an allergic, IgE-mediated reaction to epidurally administered local anesthetic.
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