Capnography-guided blind nasal intubation under conscious sedation for airway management in a plunging ranula
Vikash Bansal, Sony Sony, Shivam Shekhar, Kausiki Poddar · 2026
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Description
Vikash Bansal, Sony Sony, Shivam Shekhar, and Kausiki Poddar report a difficult airway case managed without the usual fiber-optic scope. Their 2026 case report describes a twenty-two-year-old man with HIV and a huge plunging ranula, a cyst swelling the floor of the mouth and neck. The mass displaced his tongue, and mask ventilation, direct scope views, and video scope views were all expected to fail.
Single-use scopes were unavailable, and shared scopes raised cross-infection worries in a low-resource setting. The team secured the airway by blind nasal intubation under conscious sedation, guided by a carbon dioxide trace. The approach avoided a tracheostomy or a retrograde technique. The case argues for older skills where gear is scarce.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vikash Bansal, Sony Sony, Shivam Shekhar, Kausiki Poddar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |