Open AccessPosterior mediastinal mass: Do we need to worry much?
Author(s) -
Parin Lalwani,
Rajiv Chawla,
Manoj Kumar,
A. S. Tomar,
Padmalatha Raman
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9784.119183
Subject(s) - medicine , mediastinal mass , worry , airway management , anesthesia , ventilation (architecture) , airway , anesthetic , mechanical ventilation , surgery , mechanical engineering , anxiety , psychiatry , engineering
Anesthetic management of mediastinal masses is challenging. There is abundant literature available on anesthesia management of anterior mediastinal mass. Anesthetic management of posterior mediastinal mass lesions normally have uneventful course. We describe airway collapse and difficult mechanical ventilation in the postoperative period in a patient with posterior mediastinal mass.