Head injury patient with bilateral vocal cord paralysis: a mistake and a lesson learnt.

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Department of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, JPNA Trauma Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.

Published: November 2015


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Bilateral recurrent nerve palsy along with head injury is a rare clinical possibility and can be potentially fatal if not properly diagnosed. We report a case of a head injury patient with intact Glasgow Coma Scale requiring immediate re-intubation and tracheostomy after extubation failure as a result of stridor and severe dyspnoea with paradoxical respiratory pattern, possibly because of undiagnosed significant surgical history.

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