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You are called to the ICU for an airway problem. You arrive and find an 86 year old man who does not seem to want to stop coughing. The nurse said she had been encouraging him to take large breaths, when he suddenly started to cough. His oxygen saturation is 86% and he does not want the oxygen mask on his face. He is sitting up and looks like he is fighting for his life. He is holding onto his neck but cannot tell you what the problem is. He won’t open his mouth.
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2012). Case 24: An Airway Surprise. In: Case Studies of Near Misses in Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1179-7_24
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