TY - JOUR JF - ISMJ JO - Iran South Med J VL - 14 IS - 3 PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/9/01 TI - Awake endotracheal intubation and self positioning the patient to prone position for lumbar discectomy operation TT - گزارش یک مورد لوله‌گذاری تراشه در حالت بیدار و تغییر وضعیت توسط خود بیمار کاندید عمل دیسککتومی کمر در وضعیت دمر N2 - Awake endotracheal intubation is indicated when risk of pulmonary aspiration and difficult airway management is present. In this way, patient cooperation and topical anesthesia with experience of anesthesiologist in difficult airway management is necessary. In this case report, we present a 21-year-old man with (Body Mass Index) = 51 and 140 kg of weight candidates for lumbar discectomy in prone position. After conclusion about his condition with difficult anesthesia, awaked endotracheal intubation in supine position was done and self positioned to prone for operation. SP - 199 EP - 202 AU - Anvarypour, Abdolrasoul AU - Saffarian, Arash AU - Alizadeh otaghour, Hamidreza AU - Naseri, Vafa AU - Ramezanian, Nader AD - KW - awaked endotracheal intubation KW - prone position KW - lumbar discectomy KW - morbid obesity UR - http://ismj.bpums.ac.ir/article-1-275-en.html ER -