Airway management and perioperative adverse events in children with mucopolysaccharidoses and mucolipidoses: a retrospective cohort study.

CONCLUSIONS: The disease subtype and primary airway technique were the most important independent risk factors for perioperative adverse events. Our findings indicate that in MPS/ML-children with predicted difficult airway indirect techniques should be favored for the first tracheal intubation attempt.
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Source: Paediatric Anaesthesia - December 12, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Dohrmann T, Muschol NM, Sehner S, Punke MA, Haas SA, Roeher K, Breyer S, Koehn AF, Ullrich K, Zöllner C, Petzoldt M Tags: Paediatr Anaesth Source Type: research