• A&A practice · Feb 2021

    Endobronchial Blocker Placement for Lung Isolation in Children: A Simple Head Turn Technique.

    • Dinesh K Choudhry, B Randall Brenn, and Gregory M DiSilvio.
    • From the Department of Anesthesiology, Shriners Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    • A A Pract. 2021 Feb 11; 15 (2): e01390.

    AbstractEndobronchial blockers are frequently used for lung isolation in children <8 years of age. The aim of our report is to highlight the problem that we have encountered with the wire-guided endobronchial blocker (WEB), where the wire loop used to couple the blocker and the fiberoptic scope (FOS) may straddle the carina. We describe the "uncoupled head turn technique" that we have adopted to avoid this problem. If the coupled technique is deemed necessary, a method to keep the wire loop snug around the FOS is described to avoid the straddling problem.Copyright © 2021 International Anesthesia Research Society.

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