Bilateral pneumonectomy with difficult airway managed by using a combination of i-gel and EZ-Blocker

When we encounter the case of a patient with a difficult airway and we are not able to intubate, we insert a supraglottic airway device (SGD) [1,2]. In this presented case, we came across a patient with difficult airway, on whom we performed a bilateral pneumonectomy using a combination of an SGD and double-cuffed endobronchial blockers, the EZ-Blocker (Tereflex Medical Japan, Tokyo, Japan) to do 1-lung ventilation. The patient was a 73-year-old woman with hypertension. Investigation into her physical condition only showed micrognathia.

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