[Intubation Using a Double-lumen Tube with a Combination of Fiberoptic Bronchoscope and the Glidescope in a Patient with Difficult Airway].

A 54-year-old man with lung cancer was scheduled for thoracoscopic upper lobe resection under general anesthesia. About half a year previously, he had undergone surgery for oropharyngeal cancer and tongue cancer. As a result of the surgery, elasticity of the neck skin bending of the neck were restricted (Mallampati classification IV). A narrow-bored tracheostomy tube (speech cannula) was inserted. In the operating room, the tip of a 5.0 mm ID standard tube was inserted from the tracheostomy tube, and connected to a breathing circuit. Anesthesia was induced with inhalation of sevoflurane, followed by intravenous propofol, fentanyl, and rocuronium. Four anesthesiologists were required to intubate the trachea. One person held the tracheal tube placed in the tracheotomy tube. The second person performed jaw thrusting. The third person inserted the Glidescope to shift the transplanted tongue to the side. It was then possible for the forth anesthesiologist to manage to see the glottis using a fiberoptic bronchoscope, and a double-lumen tube (DLT) could be inserted to the trachea orally. Inserting a DLT over the fiberoptic bronchoscope is a blind method, but we felt that combined with a variety of tools such as video laryngoscope, the success rate in intubation will increase.