It is not certain whether the transplanted stem cells have continued to function in the patient or whether other cells from her body have become part of the new airway.
We hypothesized that this new airway device would facilitate tracheal intubation of morbidly obese patients.
The objective was to outline the entire spectrum of new airway techniques.
This new airway management option seems simple for trained skilled operators and very comfortable for the patient.
The patient was monitored for 7 days in the ICU sedated and paralyzed and returned the OR for a new airway endoscopy and replacement of the ETT with a 5.0 tracheostomy tube.
New airway devices must be assessed in an objective way without patient harm and manikin-based airway research is accepted [ 4, 33– 33].
This high number of reported guidelines for an airway algorithm could perhaps be explains by the fact that the SFAI has recently developed a new airway algorithm [ 13].
New airway devices will continue to be developed and introduced into clinical practice; their place in these guidelines will need to be evaluated.
Also the major change that occurred from the recognition of airway related morbidity and mortality in the 80's and 90's and now, is the availability of extraglottic devices and new airway tools that have in fact improved our practice.
