[Pediatric one-lung anesthesia with a Fogarty catheter].
One-lung anesthesia using a Fogarty catheter in pediatric patients is presented. Case 1 is an 8 year old male with coarctation of the aorta scheduled for coarctectomy. Case 2 is a 13 year old female with metastatic lung tumor scheduled for partial resection of the left upper lobe under thoracoscopic surgery. One-lung anesthesia was successfully established with a Fogarty catheter in both patients and no hypoxic episode was encountered during the one-lung anesthesia. Postoperatively, there was no evidence of atelectasis of the lung or barotrauma to the trachea or bronchus. Thus, the Fogarty catheter appears useful for pediatric one-lung anesthesia, especially when the double lumen endobronchial tubes or endobronchial blockers of smaller sizes are not available.
Yasumoto
M
M
Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University.
Harasawa
I
I
Mori
M
M
Tanaka
K
K
Dan
K
K
D000293:Adolescent; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods*; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000601:surgery; D002404:Catheterization; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male