title: The novel use of computer-generated virtual imaging to assess the difficult pediatric airway.
abstract: In a patient with a known difficult airway, history and examination may be of limited use in formulating a management plan for subsequent tracheal intubation. Further detailed and descriptive review of the airway is necessary. Virtual imaging is a recent advance in radiology that offers noninvasive airway assessment. It creates a movie clip image of the upper airway akin to the view obtained through a fiberscope. We present a patient with Goldenhar syndrome in whom virtual imaging was used to identify the cause of a previous failed tracheal intubation.
authors: Division of Pediatric Anesthesia, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. ames0002@mc.duke.edu
authors: Warwick A
authors: WA
authors: Ames
authors: David B
authors: DB
authors: Macleod
authors: Allison K
authors: AK
authors: Ross
authors: Jeffrey
authors: J
authors: Marcus
authors: Srinivasan
authors: S
authors: Mukundan
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D011859:Radiography; D014132:Trachea / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging