Transtracheal Anesthesia for Bronchoscopy

Abstract

BRONCHOSCOPY contributes greatly to the diagnosis and treatment of intrathoracic disease. It is at once apparent that proper anesthesia serves the interest of both the bronchoscopist and the patient.In a search for the most satisfactory anesthetic technic, the various methods of administering topical agents have been explored, the gamut of general anesthetics has been run, and a series of bronchoscopic and esophagoscopic examinations have been conducted under bilateral vagus-nerve block. The technic described below appears to us to serve best the patient and bronchoscopist. The safety of this method is adequately established by experience with more than 1000 patients . . .