Atelectasis after the Induction of Anesthesia in a Healthy Child: A case report / 대한마취과학회지

Atelectasis or lung collapse is a relatively common complication following surgery in anesthetized patient with respiratory tract symptoms, but may rarely occur in normal healthy patients. Children differ from adult in terms of neck and airway anatomy and physiology. Thus, we should pay more attention to pediatric patients with respiratory tract symptoms. This report describes a healthy pediatric patient with no respiratory symptoms who developed left upper lobar collapse just after the induction of general anesthesia.