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Chapter 6 - Upper Airway Obstruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Gareth Waters  and
Andrew Nyman
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

An ex-premature infant, now 2 months corrected gestational age, is referred to your retrieval service. The baby was born at 24 weeks’ gestation at a birthweight of 538 g. She was intubated and ventilated for the first 6 weeks of her NICU stay and since then has remained continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) dependent, with a diagnosis of chronic lung disease. She was transferred as a step down to the referring hospital special care baby unit (SCUBU) 2 weeks ago. She weighs 3.4 kg now.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 29 - 34
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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The Difficult Airway Society (DAS) and Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists (APA) Guidelines for difficult airway management in children. https://das.uk.com/guidelines/paediatric-difficult-airway-guidelines.Google Scholar
Ho, AM-H, Mizubuti, GB, Dion, JM, et al. Paediatric postintubation subglottic stenosis. Arch Dis Child 2019;0:1. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2018-316517.Google Scholar
Maloney, E, Meakin, GH. Acute stridor in children. Contin Educ Anaesthesia Crit Care Pain 2007;7: 183–6. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaceaccp/mkm041.Google Scholar

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