When can we give general anesthesia to an infant with anticipated difficult airway management caused by facial vascular malformation?

When can we give general anesthesia to an infant with anticipated difficult airway management caused by facial vascular malformation?

Abstract A 13-month-old infant weighing 8.3 kg with a height of 72.3 cm visited our hospital for surgical resection of facial vascular malformation detected at birth. Because we anticipated the patient would have difficult airway management and massive perioperative bleeding, we postponed surgery to...

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Main Authors: Kumi Moriyama, Masanori Mitsuda, Masakazu Kurita, Mine Ozaki, Kiyoshi Moriyama, Tomoko Yorozu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-04-01
Series:JA Clinical Reports
Subjects:
Pediatric
Facial vascular malformation
Anticipated difficult airway management
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40981-017-0082-9

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