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Tracheobronchial Tree

Built from Behrbohm — Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases with Head and Neck Surgery

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9 sections · 76 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this deck covers, and why an ENT surgeon owns it

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Applied Anatomy and Physiology

    How the airway is built and how it keeps itself clean

    • The trachea: a reinforced flexible airway
    • The carina: where one tube becomes two
    • Segmental bronchi of the tracheobronchial tree
    • From cartilage rings to muscular bronchioles
    • Blood, lymph and nerves of the airway
    • A self-cleaning, air-conditioning duct

    6 slides

  3. 03

    Looking Inside: Tracheobronchoscopy

    The two scopes and when each is chosen

    • Two ways to look down the airway
    • Rigid bronchoscope and its instruments
    • What the rigid scope can do
    • Flexible fiber endoscopes
    • The flexible fiberscope: reaching the small branches
    • When bronchoscopy is indicated
    • Differential diagnosis of breathlessness — upper airway
    • Breathlessness by cause: trachea and bronchi

    8 slides

  4. 04

    Tracheobronchial Stenoses

    Why the airway narrows, and how it is opened again

    • What a stenosis is and how we classify it
    • Types of tracheal stenosis
    • Typical locations of laryngotracheal stenosis
    • Acute stenosis: a sudden airway emergency
    • Acute stenosis: diagnosis and immediate treatment
    • Chronic stenosis: the slow squeeze
    • Chronic stenosis: how it is worked up
    • MRI of a suprastomal tracheal stenosis
    • Treating chronic stenosis: surgery by cause
    • Tracheopexy: propping a floppy airway open
    • Tracheopexy with extratracheal synthetic rings
    • Tracheal resection with end-to-end anastomosis
    • Tracheal resection and end-to-end anastomosis
    • Cricotracheal resection at the larynx junction
    • Cricotracheal resection and laryngotracheal anastomosis
    • Tracheoplasty: widening a long, narrow segment
    • Partial tracheoplasty with a cartilage graft
    • Tracheal tubes and endoprostheses that stent the lumen
    • Endoscopic treatment: the least invasive route
    • Endoscopic balloon dilatation of a subglottic stenosis

    20 slides

  5. 05

    Securing the Airway

    Tracheotomy, cricothyrotomy and intubation

    • Three life-saving ways to get air in
    • Tracheotomy: where to enter the trachea
    • Surgical access routes for tracheotomy
    • Elective (planned) tracheotomy: the technique
    • Indications for elective tracheotomy
    • Flexible tracheal cannula with an inflatable cuff
    • Emergency tracheotomy: fast, but risky
    • Complications of tracheotomy
    • Percutaneous tracheotomy: the bedside ICU method
    • Cricothyrotomy: the last-ditch emergency opening
    • Cricothyrotomy: instruments and landmarks
    • Intubation: how long is the tube meant to stay?
    • Intubation: the technique step by step
    • Endotracheal intubation with the laryngoscope
    • Living with a tracheostomy
    • Day-to-day tracheostomy care
    • When a tracheostomy goes wrong
    • Difficult decannulation: tube will not come out

    18 slides

  6. 06

    Foreign Bodies and Trauma

    The inhaled object and the injured airway

    • Inhaled foreign bodies: mainly a childhood emergency
    • Aspirated foreign body on a chest radiograph
    • Foreign bodies: what they do and how they are found
    • Tracheal trauma

    4 slides

  7. 07

    Tracheal Infections

    From ordinary tracheitis to life-threatening croup

    • Tracheitis and croup
    • Diphtheritic tracheitis and the rarer tracheitides

    2 slides

  8. 08

    Congenital Anomalies and Tumors

    Bronchiectasis, benign lesions and airway cancers

    • Congenital anomalies and bronchiectasis
    • Tracheal tumors: benign and the overall picture
    • Malignant tracheal tumors
    • Endotracheal growth of a bronchial carcinoma
    • Bronchial carcinoma

    5 slides

  9. 09

    Bringing It Together

    The essentials to carry away

    • Three ideas that tie the topic together
    • Why does an inhaled foreign body most often lodge in the right main bronchus?
    • Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases: With Head and Neck Surgery

    3 slides