{"title":"Telescoping Nasal Intubation for Carotid Endarterectomy: A Case Series.","authors":"Brittany J McDowell, Sonal Sharma","doi":"10.1213/XAA.0000000000001657","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Systemic anticoagulation is a relative contraindication for performing nasal intubation due to the risk of hazardous bleeding. However, nasal intubation may sometimes be the only way to facilitate surgical exposure. There are currently no recommendations in the literature to safely perform nasal intubation in anticoagulated patients. This case series describes 4 patients, all receiving systemic anticoagulation for carotid endarterectomy, who received nasal intubation using a telescoping approach. None of them had any epistaxis. Telescoping the endotracheal tube using a red rubber catheter may be an effective and safe method for nasal intubation when there is a high risk of epistaxis.</p>","PeriodicalId":7307,"journal":{"name":"A&A Practice","volume":"17 1","pages":"e01657"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"A&A Practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1213/XAA.0000000000001657","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Systemic anticoagulation is a relative contraindication for performing nasal intubation due to the risk of hazardous bleeding. However, nasal intubation may sometimes be the only way to facilitate surgical exposure. There are currently no recommendations in the literature to safely perform nasal intubation in anticoagulated patients. This case series describes 4 patients, all receiving systemic anticoagulation for carotid endarterectomy, who received nasal intubation using a telescoping approach. None of them had any epistaxis. Telescoping the endotracheal tube using a red rubber catheter may be an effective and safe method for nasal intubation when there is a high risk of epistaxis.
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A & A Case Reports, our new online journal publishing Case Reports, related Editorial Commentary, and Correspondence. Anesthesia & Analgesia 1 and Anesthesiology 2 recently announced that they were suspending publication of Case Reports. One reason is that Case Reports typically reduce the Impact Factor of a journal because they are rarely cited. Regardless of the merits of Impact Factor as a metric of journal worth, journals and their editors necessarily consider Impact Factor in strategic planning. At the same time, Case Reports are appreciated by readers for describing “real life” management of difficult or unusual cases not often encountered by practitioners. In a recent issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, Steven Shafer1 identified many Case Reports whose publication launched productive careers dedicated to solving the puzzle posed by an unusual observation in a single patient.