Ji-Hye Seok, Eun-Ju Kim, Jong-Seouk Ban, Sang-Gon Lee, Ji-Hyang Lee, Da-Mi Seo, Kwang-Seok Shim
There are many methods for achieving one-lung ventilation (OLV) during thoracic surgery in neonates and the accuracy of OLV may affect postoperative outcome. The authors have performed OLV using a 5 Fr Arndt endobronchial blocker (AEB, Cook Inc., Bloomington, IN, USA) on a neonate diagnosed with congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation and respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) associated with marked mediastinal shift. In spite of sufficient preoxygenation, sudden and severe fall in oxygen saturation had occurred...
July 2013: Korean Journal of Anesthesiology