Revista española de anestesiología y reanimación
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Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a medicinal gas that has been used for anesthesia for over a century and a half. As evidence of the adverse effects of N2O have been contrasted with the good safety profiles of new anesthetic agents, use of the older gas has declined. ⋯ This study shows that N2O is little used in current anesthesia practice. The tendency in Uruguay continues to be toward declining use.
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Feb 2010
Case Reports[Use of a metal guide in the working channel of a fiberoptic scope to insert a tracheal tube in an infant with Treacher Collins syndrome and choanal atresia].
Neonates with Treacher Collins syndrome can present difficult airways. Ventilation through a face mask and laryngoscopy for tracheal intubation may prove impossible due to the craniofacial malformations that are characteristic of this syndrome. ⋯ We report the case of a 5-day-old infant boy with Treacher Collins syndrome and bilateral choanal atresia in whom we used a flexible metal guide inserted into the working channel of a fiberoptic scope. The tracheal tube could then be inserted.