title: Anaesthesia Management of a Child with West Syndrome.
abstract: West syndrome (WS) is an epileptic encephalopathy usually occurring during the first year of life and is characterized by severe electroencephalography (EEG) derangement. Most of these patients may develop cerebral palsy, facial malformations, and skeletal deformities. The anaesthesiologist should make the preoperative assessment carefully due to epileptic seizures and should consider the possibility of difficult intubation because of coexisting anatomic malformations during the anaesthesia management of patients with WS. This report presents a case of general anaesthesia management in a left femoral fixation operation in an 11-year-old, 18 kg male patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sevtap Hekimoğlu
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Şahin
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
authors.forename: Elif
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Çopuroğlu
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hüseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Uğur
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
authors.forename: Gönül
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sağıroğlu
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey.
authors.forename: Alkin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Çolak
keywords: West syndrome; facial malformations; general anaesthesia; skeletal deformities