Difficult Airway Management in A Pediatric Case with Infantile Hemangioma

Authors : Abdullah ÖZDEMİR, Başar ERDİVANLİ, Ahmet ŞEN, Suat TERZİ, Bülent ÖZDEMİR

Pages : 58-60

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Publication Date : 2018-07-01

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Introduction: Difficult airway, one of the most fearsome situations of anesthesia practice, is a more serious problem in pediatric cases. Infantile hemangioma, the most common vascular tumour in childhood, may pose difficult airway.Case Report: Direct laryngoscopy or videolaryngoscopy was not sufficient to secure the airway in a 7 years old child, who was diagnosed with epidural hematoma following a fall, and was scheduled for emergency surgery. She was intubated with supraglottic airway devices.Conclusion: We aimed to present our experience in pediatric difficult airway in a case of oral infantile hemangioma
Keywords : Infantile hemangioma, difficult airway, laringeal mask airway