Clinical Case Report on Difficult Airway Management During COVID-19

A case report from the COVID-19 pandemic era detailing the management of a patient with a difficult airway. The report describes a 60-year-old male with a history of head and neck cancer presenting with stridor and dyspnea. Authored by Christopher H. Rassekh of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, it illustrates multidisciplinary planning and decision-making.

Use Cases

• Training clinical decision support models based on the described multidisciplinary planning process.
• Studying risk assessment and protocol development for difficult airway patients during pandemics.
• Analyzing case-based outcomes for tracheostomy management and decannulation complications.

Strengths

• Case report provides a detailed narrative of a specific, complex clinical scenario.
• Highlights a real-world application of multidisciplinary team planning and COVID-19 safety protocols.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to paperswithcode, focusing on the early pandemic period.

Provenance

Source

Christopher H. Rassekh, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Collection Method

Clinical case report.

Time Range

COVID-19 pandemic era.