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SUBMITTER: Patra P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2900081 | biostudies-other | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Indian journal of anaesthesia 20091201 6
<h4>Summary</h4>This four-month-old Pierre Robin child was admitted for cleft lip repair with history of two failed attempts at intubation and subsequent cancellation of surgery. The capnography guided awake nasal intubation was considered as the child's parents were desperate to get the surgery done. A modified cuffless endotracheal tube was used with a capnography sampling tube placed within it. With the capnograph guidance the expiratory gas flow was followed to successfully intubate the chil ...[more]