Meeting
Abstract Number: 556
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: Our patient was a 71 year-old male admitted for acute respiratory failure secondary to aspiration pneumonia in the setting of advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) requiring endotracheal intubation. After multiple failed attempts to extubate in light of supraglottic edema, the patient underwent a tracheostomy in the operating room (OR) with propofol, lidocaine, fentanyl and […]