ABSTRACT
The anatomy of the pediatric larynx has been of great interest to the anesthesiologists and the ENT specialists as there has been a compulsion to use the endotracheal tube [ETT] with the largest possible internal diameter in an effort to minimize the resistance to air flow. The need to calculate the best possible size of ETT in infants and children without any harmful effects, lead to various studies, including autopsies, and radiodiagnostic studies
ABSTRACT
Writing about advances in a field of medicine normally includes some pride about progress which one was witness to or even a participant in. The younger one is, the more enthusiastically every advance is lauded and welcomed. This is human nature and nothing to be complained about. However, when anesthesiologists, having worked and struggled in the field of pediatric anesthesia for about 40 years, look back to past advances, a more realistic, even painful picture comes to mind. There was a price which a considerable number of patients had to pay for progress, ruined health or even death. This experience of decades of practice is rarely presented in the literature but should not be forgotten when we proudly remember advances in pediatric anesthesia.