Anaesthetic management of difficult airway due to retropharyngeal abscess

A one-and-half-year old girl weighing 7.5 kg presented with a history of neck swelling, difficulty in swallowing and breathing. She was posted for incision and drainage on an emergency basis. Diagnosis was confirmed by neck X-ray and computed tomography scan as retropharyngeal abscess. Here we prese...

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Autores principales: Rao, Manjula Sudhakar, Linga Raju, YK, Vishwanathan, PN
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20885875
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.65376
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author Rao, Manjula Sudhakar
Linga Raju, YK
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description A one-and-half-year old girl weighing 7.5 kg presented with a history of neck swelling, difficulty in swallowing and breathing. She was posted for incision and drainage on an emergency basis. Diagnosis was confirmed by neck X-ray and computed tomography scan as retropharyngeal abscess. Here we present the successful anaesthetic management of this child at JSS Medical College Hospital, Mysore.
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spelling pubmed-29334872010-09-30 Anaesthetic management of difficult airway due to retropharyngeal abscess Rao, Manjula Sudhakar Linga Raju, YK Vishwanathan, PN Indian J Anaesth Case Report A one-and-half-year old girl weighing 7.5 kg presented with a history of neck swelling, difficulty in swallowing and breathing. She was posted for incision and drainage on an emergency basis. Diagnosis was confirmed by neck X-ray and computed tomography scan as retropharyngeal abscess. Here we present the successful anaesthetic management of this child at JSS Medical College Hospital, Mysore. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2933487/ /pubmed/20885875 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.65376 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vishwanathan, PN
Anaesthetic management of difficult airway due to retropharyngeal abscess
title Anaesthetic management of difficult airway due to retropharyngeal abscess
title_full Anaesthetic management of difficult airway due to retropharyngeal abscess
title_fullStr Anaesthetic management of difficult airway due to retropharyngeal abscess
title_full_unstemmed Anaesthetic management of difficult airway due to retropharyngeal abscess
title_short Anaesthetic management of difficult airway due to retropharyngeal abscess
title_sort anaesthetic management of difficult airway due to retropharyngeal abscess
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20885875
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.65376
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