title: [Anesthesia for four pediatric patients with difficult airway in whom airway scope was useful for Intubation].
abstract: In the field of pediatric anesthesia, devices to solve difficult airway are scant compare to devices for adult difficult airways. We report successful use of an Airway Scope with a pediatric blade in four children with difficult airways. Difficult tracheal intubation had been predicted in all the children, and two had history of difficult intubation. Tracheal intubation using an Airway Scope was always easy. We conclude that the Airway Scope with a pediatric blade is potentially useful in children with difficult airways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Dokkyo Medical University, Koshigaya Hospital, Koshigaya 343-8555.
authors.forename: Takero
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: Mai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nozawa
authors.forename: Maki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Tomoya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Terauchi
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kuno
authors.forename: Yasuhisa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okuda
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male