Airway management is critical during near-fatal obstruction of the silver lining herbs kidney support upper airway in epiglottitis; however, this is challenging because of the sitting posture and agitated mental status of the patient.Moreover, there is currently no established protocol for safe airway management in patients with epiglottitis.Here, we describe the use of a jolly rancher filled gummies conventional tracheal tube as a nasolaryngeal airway to maintain airway patency at the site of airway narrowing in the supine position, which enabled alleviation of imminent airway obstruction in a patient with epiglottitis.
For definitive airway establishment, tracheostomy was then safely performed in the supine position.