Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology
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We report a case of awake intubation in a patient with a difficult airway combined with severe hemorrhagic shock using the Pentax-AWS Airwayscope (AWS). A 65-year-old man experienced severe hemorrhagic shock due to diaphragmatic hernia after extrapleural pneumonectomy and was scheduled for emergent exploratory thoracotomy under general anesthesia. ⋯ The patient underwent awake intubation with the AWS under dexmedetomidine sedation and lidocaine spray for laryngotracheal anesthesia. The patient did not buck during intubation and hemodynamic changes were minimal.
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A patient developed upper airway obstruction immediately after tracheal extubation due to excessive anteflexion of the neck with occipitocervical fusion. A 59-year-old woman who had undergone mastectomy 17 years previously was scheduled for occipitocervical fusion for C2 vertebral metastasis. Retroflexion of her neck was restricted. ⋯ One day postoperatively, extubation was performed successfully with no dyspnea. Fixation of the neck in excessive anteflexion is one of the causes of upper airway obstruction after occipitocervical fusion. We must carefully observe cervical X-ray films to locate the upper airway obstruction, and careful extubation using a tube exchanger is strongly recommended in this operation.
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Case Reports
[Anesthetic management of a patient with pulmonary arterial hypertension undergoing caesarean section].
A 38-year-old woman on medical therapy for Basedow disease and hypertension with a history of recent heart failure became pregnant. At the 13th week of gestation, her echocardiography showed pulmonary hypertension with 63 mmHg of estimated systolic pulmonary arterial pressure. At the 26th week of gestation, she was admitted to our hospital with dyspnea and uncontrolled hypertension. ⋯ After epidural anesthesia had been established, surgical procedure was safely performed. The patient was discharged 9 days after surgery, and her estimated systolic pulmonary arterial pressure dropped to 35 mmHg on echocardiography 2 months after the operation. We speculate that pregnancy induced her severe pulmonary hypertension.
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An 84-year-old man successfully underwent thoracotomic drainage for empyema under awake epidural anesthesia. His past history had revealed significant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease due to smoking. ⋯ The additional small doses of fentanyl i. v. and local anesthesia infiltration were needed for resection of 9th rib, but otherwise the drainage was managed successfully. Awake epidural anesthesia was very useful for such a high-risk patient with poor respiratory status.
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We studied the utility of Vigileo monitor for grasping hemodynamics with a patient in a state of anaphylactic shock. The stroke volume variation (SVV) predicts fluid responsiveness of normal cases. In the anaphylactic shock resulting from biased blood distribution, not only blood pressure but also pulse pressure markedly decreased within a couple of minutes. ⋯ A former version of Vigileo monitor underestimated the arterial pressure-based cardiac output (APCO) due to the underrating of a single stroke volume (SV) in a range of systemic vascular resistance (SVR) below 800 dyne x sec(-1) x cm(-5). The version 3.02 Vigileo monitor allowed for more accurate estimation of SV because its new algorithm was able to revise the apparently low SVR derived from the arterial waveform characteristics and hence provided more realistic SV and APCO values. It was thus concluded that this ver. 3.02 is useful for anesthetic management of the anaphylactic case.