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Anesthesia and analgesia · May 2007
Case ReportsThe novel use of computer-generated virtual imaging to assess the difficult pediatric airway.
- Warwick A Ames, David B Macleod, Allison K Ross, Jeffrey Marcus, and Srinivasan Mukundan.
- Division of Pediatric Anesthesia, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. ames0002@mc.duke.edu
- Anesth. Analg. 2007 May 1;104(5):1154-6, tables of contents.
AbstractIn a patient with a known difficult airway, history and examination may be of limited use in formulating a management plan for subsequent tracheal intubation. Further detailed and descriptive review of the airway is necessary. Virtual imaging is a recent advance in radiology that offers noninvasive airway assessment. It creates a movie clip image of the upper airway akin to the view obtained through a fiberscope. We present a patient with Goldenhar syndrome in whom virtual imaging was used to identify the cause of a previous failed tracheal intubation.
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