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Year : 2019 | Volume
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Anaesthetic management of an infant with tracheomalacia scheduled for computed tomography angiography: A challenge
Manpreet Kaur, Sana Y Hussain
Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Manpreet Kaur Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi India
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DOI: 10.4103/ija.IJA_874_18
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Tracheomalacia is characterised by collapse of the tracheal wall with respiration. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) can be utilised for evaluation of airway abnormalities but providing sedation/anaesthesia for CTA in such a case carries the risk of airway catastrophe. We describe the anaesthetic management of an infant who had tracheomalacia with >90% collapse in lower two third of the intrathoracic trachea as diagnosed on videobronchoscpy and was scheduled for CTA.
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