The Anesthetic Management of the Patient with a Mediastinal Mass: A case report / 대한마취과학회지
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
;
: 138-142, 1999.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-211042
ABSTRACT
General anesthesia for the removal of a large mediastinal mass has been associated with life-threatening airway obstruction. We present a case of general anesthesia for a patient with superior posterior mediastinal mass and critical airway compression who was allowed to maintain spontaneous ventilation throughout general anesthesia for a thoracotomy. The patient was a 5-year-old boy complaining of productive cough and intermittent fever for 3 weeks. His chest radiograph and magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) film demonstrated a critically narrowed and deviated trachea at the level of the thoracic inlet to the proximal portion of the right bronchus. We can secure the airway by spontaneous ventilation without muscle relaxation and allowing the patient to breathe spontaneously and insertion of endotracheal tube distal to the narrowed portion of trachea.
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Main subject:
Trachea
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Ventilation
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Bronchi
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Thoracotomy
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Radiography, Thoracic
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Bays
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Cough
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Airway Obstruction
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Fever
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Anesthesia, General
Limits:
Child, preschool
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
Year:
1999
Type:
Article
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