Difficult or impossible facemask ventilation in children with difficult tracheal intubation: a retrospective analysis of the PeDI registry.

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Difficult facemask ventilation is perilous in children whose tracheas are difficult to intubate. We hypothesised that certain physical characteristics and anaesthetic factors are associated with difficult mask ventilation in paediatric patients who also had difficult tracheal intubation.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Br J Anaesth

Title: British journal of anaesthesia

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1471-6771

ISSN (Print): 0007-0912

Publication date (Electronic): Jul 2023

Volume: 131

Issue: 1

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[1 ] Department of Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

[2 ] Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: lklee@mednet.ucla.edu.

[3 ] Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

[4 ] Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Children's Hospital of Boston, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

[5 ] Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.

[6 ] Department of Anesthesiology, Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center, Durham, NC, USA.

[7 ] Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

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Publisher Item ID: S0007-0912(23)00122-8

DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.02.035

PubMed ID: 37076335

SO-VID: 9cdd61f0-bec4-4f10-80f2-34cd00f38a17

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Keywords: difficult facemask ventilation,impossible facemask ventilation,paediatrics,supraglottic airway,difficult airway,complications

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Keywords: difficult facemask ventilation, impossible facemask ventilation, paediatrics, supraglottic airway, difficult airway, complications

Difficult or impossible facemask ventilation in children with difficult tracheal intubation: a retrospective analysis of the PeDI registry.

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