A Neonate with a Difficult Airway and Aspiration Risk
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A newborn with small bowel obstruction is taken to the operating room for an exploratory laparotomy. You are called to assist with a potentially difficult…
Airway Management of a 6-Year-Old with Pierre Robin Syndrome for Bilateral Inguinal Hernia Repair
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 6-year-old child with Pierre Robin Syndrome (PRS) presents for bilateral inguinal hernia repair. As a newborn, he underwent tongue-lip adhesion surgery for upper airway…
Management of a Child with a History of Difficult Intubation and Post-Tonsillectomy Bleed
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 6-year-old boy with Down syndrome is en route to your children’s hospital by ambulance with post-tonsillectomy bleeding. He underwent adenotonsillectomy under general anesthesia 22…
Airway Management of a Patient with a Difficult Airway Requiring Microlaryngoscopy, Tracheoscopy, and Pharyngoesophageal Dilation
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 17-year-old woman (AB) presents with a 4-year history of dysphagia. She is unable to eat solids. She also has poor voice with low pitch…
Management of a 12-Year-Old Child with a Foreign Body in the Bronchus
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 40 kg, 12-year-old boy with a history of cervical spine fusion due to syringomyelia presents to the hospital following the accidental inhalation of a…
Airway Management in Penetrating Neck Injury
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A previously healthy 30-year-old male was shot at close range with a low caliber hand gun. A 911 call was placed immediately and paramedics were…
Airway Management of a Patient with a History of Oral and Cervical Radiation Therapy
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 68-year-old male was found on CT to have a right lung nodule and paratracheal lymphadenopathy. He was then scheduled for diagnostic bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy….
Airway Management of a Patient in Prone Position
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 35-year-old intoxicated male 179 cm tall and weighing 110 kg (BMI 34 kg·m−2) presents to the emergency room with a 12-inch hunting knife lodged…
Airway Management of a Patient with History of Difficult Airway Who Refuses to Have Awake Tracheal Intubation
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 46-year-old ASA III man is scheduled to have a total knee replacement. His past medical history is remarkable for severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with…
Management of a Patient with OSA for Total Thyroidectomy
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 55-year-old female with a BMI of 42 kg·m−2, presented for total thyroidectomy for a long-standing multinodular goiter. She appeared clinically euthyroid and her thyroid…
