What Is an Airway Obstruction?

Airway obstruction, disease name. Common symptoms are shortness of breath, exertion, and wheezing.

Airway obstruction

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Airway obstruction, disease name. Common symptoms are shortness of breath, exertion, and wheezing.

Chinese name

Airway obstruction

Common symptoms

Shortness of breath, exertion, wheezing

deal with

Blood cold analysis, CO2 binding force detection

Classification

Can be hidden or sharp

Depending on the degree of obstruction, it can be insidious or sharp. If it is close to complete obstruction, it often shows shortness of breath, labor, and wheezing. Patients often show anxiety, pale, sweaty, leaning forward, and head and neck Extension, trying to reduce symptoms, may be accompanied by dysphonia, difficulty swallowing, paroxysmal severe cough and other symptoms.

If conditions permit, do your best to do all pre-operative examinations.

1. Blood cold analysis, CO2 binding force detection, blood urea nitrogen and electrolyte determination.

2. Take a positive X-ray and chest radiograph of the neck to observe the trachea compression and the lungs. CT scans are available when necessary and needed.

3. ECG monitoring;

4, change the patient's position, so that the patient's head is tilted to one side, and the mandibular head is stretched forward to minimize the neck airway obstruction as much as possible;

5. Oxygen inhalation;

6, suitable for tracheotomy, urgent tracheotomy, if it is too late to perform tracheotomy, you can use a 16-gauge needle to pierce the trachea from the cyclomembrane or its lower part to supply oxygen;

7. When the tumor obstruction site is too low, it is impossible to perform tracheotomy or cicalostomy in the thoracic mediastinum, and it is advisable to perform tracheal intubation for anesthesia;

8. If it is an intratracheal tumor, consider resection of the tumor under a bronchoscope.