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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jul 2004
Case ReportsMucositis and airway obstruction in a pediatric patient.
- Kathleen H Chaimberg and Joseph P Cravero.
- Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA. kathleen.h.chaimberg@hitchcock.org
- Anesth. Analg. 2004 Jul 1; 99 (1): 59-61.
AbstractPediatric patients undergoing induction regimens of chemotherapy may require intubation and mechanical ventilation either for respiratory failure or airway compromise as a complication of their therapy. We describe a case of difficult airway management resulting from pseudomembrane formation in a 16-yr-old girl. The patient was undergoing induction chemotherapy for stage IV rhabdomyosarcoma and developed severe mucositis that led to progressive airway obstruction.
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