Abstract
Intraoperative airway management is a key issue for an anesthesiologist. In this report, we present a 69-year-old female in whom we managed her airway using a suctioning catheter as a tracheal tube. The patient had been intubated with a 7mm tracheal tube due to the tracheal stenosis at 5cm proximal to the carina preoperatively. Intraoperatively, her trachea was cut out and we tried to intubate both bronchi separately. But the right bronchus was too strictured to be intubated with any given size of tracheal tube. Because of this, we intubated the bronchus with a 14Fr. suctioning catheter, and ventilation was performed through it. Spot was kept above 93% during the surgery.
