Use of the Aintree intubation and airway exchange catheters through LMA-ProSeal for double-lumen tube placement in a morbidly obese patient with right main stem bronchus tumour

摘要

Editor—Anaesthesia literature is replete with respect to different lung isolation strategies in patients with a difficult upper airway.12 This is in contrast to the paucity of published reports on lung isolation in patients with lower tracheobron-chial pathology. A review of literature indicated that in the majority of cases of iatrogenic traumatic endobronchial tumour dislocation, the outcome is fatal.3 We report a new approach for left double-lumen tube (DLT) placement in a patient with a difficult upper airway and a right main stem bronchus tumour.