Symaptoms
- Swallowing difficulty
- Fullness
- Neck mass
- Strridor
Causes
- Hematoma
Risk factors
- Surgical
- >3 bodies
- C2-4
- Blood losss >300
- OR time 5 hours
- Patient
- Obesity
- OSA
- Pulmonary disease
- Myelopathy
- Revision
- Anesthetic
- Multiple attempts
- Need for fiberoptic
Management
- Assess need for airway, inform anesthesia/ ENT
- Urgent intubation
- OR for hematoma evacuation and hemostasis