Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Joana Guimaraes

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• Case Report
  Careful Planning in a Pediatric Expected Difficult Airway in a Specialized Tertiary Hospital: What can Go Wrong? A Case Report
  Author(s): Joana Guimaraes, Rita Frada, Teresa Leal, Jorge Matos Orfao and Humberto S Machado Joana Guimaraes, Rita Frada, Teresa Leal, Jorge Matos Orfao and Humberto S Machado
  
  The expected difficult airway in children is a rare but challenging entity. Publications about pediatric airway management present global recommendations and strategies in order to improve safety and outcome. However, even when a careful plan is implemented according to these fundamental aspects, safety and efficacy may be compromised. The objective of this case report is to alert for the importance of a careful airway planning along with an exhaustive attention to details. A 6 month-year-old child with a complex polymalformative syndrome was scheduled for anti-reflux surgery due to recurrent respiratory infections. A careful plan for airway management was designed, based on airway examination and description of a previous approach with a video laryngoscope. It was decided to schedule two anesthesiologists, one of them experienced in the difficult airway approach. Airway management wa.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6148.1000563

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