Emergency caesarean section of a patient with eisenmenger's syndrome: A tight-rope walk.

Successful management of a pregnant patient with complex congenital heart disease is a challenge for anesthesiologists, requiring thorough knowledge of the impact of pregnancy on the cardiac lesion. Hearing and speech impaired patients pose a barrier to effective communication between the patient and the doctors, thus increasing the anxiety and risk of complications. Here, we present a case of a hearing and speech impaired woman with the rare and dangerous Eisenmenger's syndrome, presenting for an emergency cesarean section (CS).

A randomised comparative study of Miller laryngoscope blade versus Oxiport Miller laryngoscope blade for neonatal and infant intubations.

Background And Aims: Neonates and infants are prone to oxygen desaturation during the induction of general anaesthesia. Pharyngeal oxygen insufflation has been shown to delay the onset of desaturation and hypoxaemia during apnoea. We tested the hypothesis that deep laryngeal oxygenation with Oxiport Miller blade would delay the onset of desaturation compared to laryngoscopy without supplemental oxygen (Miller blade).