Difficult Airway in a Case of Gross Hydrocephalus for Shunt Surgery

Children with gross hydrocephalus for emergency ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt present challenges to anesthesiologist due to increase in circumference of head, associated congenital anomalies. Here is a case report of child with gross hydrocephalus with Type 2 Arnold chiari malformation posted for...

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Autores principales: Vagyannavar, Raghavendra, Bharti, Vandna, Hashim, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284887
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aer.AER_201_16
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description Children with gross hydrocephalus for emergency ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt present challenges to anesthesiologist due to increase in circumference of head, associated congenital anomalies. Here is a case report of child with gross hydrocephalus with Type 2 Arnold chiari malformation posted for emergency VP shunt placement possessed a difficult airway.
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spelling pubmed-57354622017-12-28 Difficult Airway in a Case of Gross Hydrocephalus for Shunt Surgery Vagyannavar, Raghavendra Bharti, Vandna Hashim, Mohammad Anesth Essays Res Case Report Children with gross hydrocephalus for emergency ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt present challenges to anesthesiologist due to increase in circumference of head, associated congenital anomalies. Here is a case report of child with gross hydrocephalus with Type 2 Arnold chiari malformation posted for emergency VP shunt placement possessed a difficult airway. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5735462/ /pubmed/29284887 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aer.AER_201_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Anesthesia: Essays and Researches http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735462/
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