Double Fogarty balloon catheter technique for difficult to retrieve esophageal foreign bodies.

Background: Foreign body ingestion is common, especially in the pediatric population. Plans for retrieval should be tailored to the specific esophageal foreign bodies.

Case Presentation: We present a difficult to retrieve esophageal foreign body in a 3-year-old girl who ingested a 2 cm glass pebble.

Case report: anesthetic management for sequential Cesarean delivery and laminectomy.

Purpose: To describe the anesthetic considerations for a near-term parturient with progressive cauda equina syndrome who required Cesarean delivery followed immediately by decompression lumbar discectomy and laminectomy in the prone position.

Clinical Features: A 33-yr-old woman presented at 35 weeks gestation with severe L5-S1 disc herniation causing motor and sensory neuronal dysfunction in the lower limbs accompanied by bowel and bladder dysfunction. After urgent multidisciplinary consultations, a decision was made to proceed with general anesthesia for Cesarean delivery in the supine position with left uterine displacement, followed immediately thereafter by L5-S1 discectomy and laminectomy in the prone position.