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| Year : 2012 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 358-360 |
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Endotracheal intubation under local anesthesia and sedation in an infant with difficult airway
Kirti N Saxena, Parul Bansal
Department of Anesthesiology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Kirti N Saxena
B-302, Geetanjali Apartments, Vikas Marg Extension, New Delhi- 110092
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0970-9185.98339
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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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