The novel use of computer-generated virtual imaging to assess the difficult pediatric airway.
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.
Ames
Warwick A
WA
Division of Pediatric Anesthesia, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. ames0002@mc.duke.edu
Macleod
David B
DB
Ross
Allison K
AK
Marcus
Jeffrey
J
Mukundan
Srinivasan
S
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