One-lung ventilation in a pediatric patient using a wire-guided endobronchial blocker for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: A case report.
10.4097/kjae.2008.55.4.516
- Author:
Dong Kyu LEE
1
;
Heezoo KIM
;
Sung Jin HAN
;
Nam Yeop KIM
Author Information
1. Department Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. kimheezoo@hotmail.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
children;
one lung ventilation;
wire-guided endobronchial blocker
- MeSH:
Bronchoscopes;
Child;
Humans;
Infant;
One-Lung Ventilation;
Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted;
Thoracotomy
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
2008;55(4):516-518
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has advantages compared with open thoracotomy. One lung ventilation, is indispensible to VATS, commonly is accomplished with a double-lumen endotracheal tube. For infants and small children, there is no double-lumen endotracheal tube suitable, various modified techniques are used to achieve one lung ventilation. Recently introduced a small sized wire-guided endobronchial blocker gives us another choice of one lung ventilation for VATS in small children. Using a wire-guided endobronchial blocker and multiport adapter for young children under flexible bronchoscope, we provided one lung ventilation (OLV) during VATS successfully without complications.
