Wigginton Mark, Lehrian Laura
Anaesthetic Department, Leeds Children's Hospital, Leeds, UK.
Division of Pediatric Anesthesia, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Paediatr Anaesth. 2016 Dec;26(12):1209-1211. doi: 10.1111/pan.13012. Epub 2016 Oct 20.
We compare airway management and lung isolation methods in two pediatric cases of congenital central hypoventilation syndrome undergoing bilateral throacoscopic phrenic-nerve-stimulator surgery. One child received lung isolation using a 7Fr bronchial blocker in conjunction with a 6.0 cuffed endotracheal tube; and the second received a technique of endobronchial intubation using a 3.5 microcuffed tube via the tracheostomy stoma in conjunction with 5.0 cuffed endotracheal intubation; a technique previously undescribed in pediatric patients.