Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology (Jan 2012)

Endotracheal intubation under local anesthesia and sedation in an infant with difficult airway

  • Kirti N Saxena,
  • Parul Bansal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0970-9185.98339
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 3
pp. 358 – 360

Abstract

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Management of the difficult airway in an infant is a challenge for the anesthesiologist. A 10-month-old infant presented to an otolaryngologist with nasopharyngeal mass since birth, which had increased rapidly in size in the last 1 month and was hanging through the cleft palate into the oropharynx. The infant was scheduled for excision of the nasopharyngeal mass through a maxillary approach and the tongue mass through an oral approach under general anesthesia. This case report describes endotracheal intubation performed successfully under sedation and local anesthesia in an infant with a nasal mass protruding through the cleft palate into the oropharynx.

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