laryngospasm

Keyword

Laryngospasm

Triggering stimuli :

• pharyngeal secretions
• passing a TT through the larynx during extubation.

prevention

extubating patients either deeply asleep or fully awake, but it can occur –albeit rarely- in an awake patient

Treatment

• Providing gentle positive pressure ventilation with 100% oxgen
• Administering IV lidocaine (1-1.5mg/kg)
• Succinylcholine ( 0.25-1mg /kg [ usually the lower dose range])

Reference

Morgan and Mikhail's Clinical Anesthesiology, 5th edition, P.335-336