Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology
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We report successful awake intubation using AWS combined with surface anesthesia of the upper airway via nebulizer. The two cases are suitable for awake intubation due to difficult airway. ⋯ The patients and author did not buck during intubation. The present case shows that it is possible to perform awake intubate safely with less stress with the combination of AWS and surface airway anesthesia via nebulizer.
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We operated rescue activities in Tohoku area after the earthquake of March 11th, 2011. From our hospital, a doctor-helicopter flew to the staging care unit at Hanamaki airport with two members of the disaster medical assistance team (DMAT), one of whom was an anesthesiologist. ⋯ The missions was quite different from our usual job as an anesthesiologist, but we could transfer the patients safely by using some knowledge of stabilizing the unstable patients as flight doctors. We report the details of our activities by our doctor-helicopters in Tohoku area.