Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Trevor A Whitwell

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• Case Report
  A Case Report of Anesthetic Management in an Eight-Week-Old Infant with Trisomy 15 Presenting for Resection of Hemangiopericytoma of the Orbit
  Author(s): Trevor A Whitwell, Anthony Franchetti, Ankit Jain and Shridevi Pandya Shah Trevor A Whitwell, Anthony Franchetti, Ankit Jain and Shridevi Pandya Shah
  
  A difficult airway management situation was presented by an eight-week-old infant who presented with a bleeding orbital tumor. The infant also had a not yet diagnosed inherited trisomy 15 with facial abnormalities and an upper respiratory tract infection that made the face-mask ventilation and tracheal intubation more challenging. The urgent need for the surgery precluded any further work-up and optimization. Anesthetic challenges included difficult mask ventilation, difficult endotracheal intubation, extremely reactive airway and very labile hemodynamics during induction. An Air-Q laryngeal mask airway was used as a rescue airway device and as a portal for endotracheal tube placement during the anesthetic management with good outcome .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6148.1000495

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