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A 58-year-old male patient with obesity and limited neck mobility was scheduled for elective abdominal surgery. Preoperative airway assessment suggested a potentially difficult airway.
How would you plan airway management for this patient? Which primary and alternative techniques would you prepare?
I would prepare videolaryngoscopy as the first option while ensuring that a flexible bronchoscope and emergency front-of-neck access equipment are immediately available…
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