Anaesthetic Management in Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy

• Published in: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH
• Main Authors: Rajendra D Patel, Nisha Gowani, Manali Nadkarni, Sameer Rege, Priti Devalkar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited 2017
• Subjects: anaesthesia; nasal intubation; natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery; Medicine; R; North Pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2017/27889.10618; https://doaj.org/article/dd428991d3a54a878b6d202bec6001c1

Young females undergoing thyroid surgery are apprehensive about the surgical scar. This leads to the introduction of Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy (TOET). TOET is gaining popularity for its minimally invasive and cosmetically sound approach to perform thyroidectomies in young patients. The surgical site being the mouth orifice poses a challenge to the anaesthesiologist to secure a definitive airway. The case report is that of a young female undergoing TOET for whom we have successfully performed nasal intubation with a North Pole ivory endotracheal tube (ET).