title: Endotracheal intubation under local anesthesia and sedation in an infant with difficult airway.
abstract: Management of the difficult airway in an infant is a challenge for the anesthesiologist. A 10-month-old infant presented to an otolaryngologist with nasopharyngeal mass since birth, which had increased rapidly in size in the last 1 month and was hanging through the cleft palate into the oropharynx. The infant was scheduled for excision of the nasopharyngeal mass through a maxillary approach and the tongue mass through an oral approach under general anesthesia. This case report describes endotracheal intubation performed successfully under sedation and local anesthesia in an infant with a nasal mass protruding through the cleft palate into the oropharynx.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Kirti N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Saxena
authors.forename: Parul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bansal