Comprehensive perioperative management of an infant with huge mediastinal mass

Abstract

Anaesthesia induction and meticulous airway management is important in a patient with anterior mediastinal mass. It is all the more challenging if this is encountered in infants. We report a comrehensive successful management of an infant with huge anterior mediastinal mass who was anaesthesized for diagnosis initially followed by surgical resection of the tumor.

Keywords

• Anaesthesia; infant; mediastinal mass; surgery