Erschienen in:
01.06.2012 | Editorial
Keep our guard up against general anesthesia for cesarean section!
verfasst von:
Hiroyuki Sumikura
Erschienen in:
Journal of Anesthesia
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Ausgabe 3/2012
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Excerpt
Obstetric airway has been recognized as a challenge to anesthesiologists [
1‐
3]. In this issue, Tao et al. reported that unanticipated difficult airway accounted for 0.56 % of all pregnancy-related surgical patients, and that more than 99.9 % of all obstetric patients could be intubated [
4]. I believe this report is valuable because it shows an actual ratio of unanticipated difficult airway in parturients in their hospital. However, I write this editorial to express some concerns, because some readers may misread this article to be optimistic. First, it should be noted that Tao et al. report a ratio of unanticipated difficult airway. Hence, there must exist some cases with anticipated difficult airway. It is a great pity, however, that they showed neither number nor ratio of anticipated difficult airways in spite of their careful preoperative or prenatal airway evaluation. …
