Case Report

Difficult Airway Management in Field Conditions: Somalia Experience

10.5152/TJAR.2015.24445

  • Ahmet Selim Özkan
  • Serdar Nazif Nasır

Received Date: 25.12.2014 Accepted Date: 16.02.2015 Turk J Anaesthesiol Reanim 2015;43(5):352-355

Difficult airway is defined as having the patient’s mask ventilation or difficult tracheal intubation of an experienced anaesthesiologist. A number of reasons, such as congenital or acquired anatomical anomalies, can cause difficult intubation and difficult ventilation. Keeping all equipment ready for airway management of patients will reduce mortality and complications. In this case, it is intended that the submission of difficult airway management who encountered in mandibular reconstruction for mandible bone defect repairing with reconstruction plates before at the field conditions in Somalia.

Keywords: General anaesthesia, difficult airway, field conditions, Somalia