Postoperative Airway Obstruction in a Low Resource Setting: A Case Report

A 2-month-old girl with abnormal facial features and malnutrition presented for placement of a gastrostomy tube. The surgery was performed under general anesthesia using a laryngeal mask airway (LMA); however, after removal of the LMA, the patient had recurrent airway collapse, requiring repeated in...

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Autores principales: Sund, Gregory C., Nizigiyimana, Samuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29985841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1213/XAA.0000000000000833
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description A 2-month-old girl with abnormal facial features and malnutrition presented for placement of a gastrostomy tube. The surgery was performed under general anesthesia using a laryngeal mask airway (LMA); however, after removal of the LMA, the patient had recurrent airway collapse, requiring repeated insertion of the LMA. The authors describe the management of this problem with the use of a tongue suture and anterior traction in the postoperative period in a resource-limited setting.
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spelling pubmed-60851262018-08-24 Postoperative Airway Obstruction in a Low Resource Setting: A Case Report Sund, Gregory C. Nizigiyimana, Samuel A A Pract Case Reports A 2-month-old girl with abnormal facial features and malnutrition presented for placement of a gastrostomy tube. The surgery was performed under general anesthesia using a laryngeal mask airway (LMA); however, after removal of the LMA, the patient had recurrent airway collapse, requiring repeated insertion of the LMA. The authors describe the management of this problem with the use of a tongue suture and anterior traction in the postoperative period in a resource-limited setting. Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc 2018-08-15 2018-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6085126/ /pubmed/29985841 http://dx.doi.org/10.1213/XAA.0000000000000833 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the International Anesthesia Research Society. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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