Pediatric airway surgery presents many significant challenges to the anesthesia provider. The clinical experience of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary serves as a guide in this review to describe the clinical reasoning and perioperative management of the pediatric patient needing airway surgery, with specific emphasis on diagnostic procedures, trauma, laryngotracheal reconstruction, juven...

Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Children’s Hospital, Hoppe-Seyler-Str.3, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany __________________________________________________________________________________ *Correspondence: Steven W. Warmann, MD, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Children’s Hospital, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany; Tel: + 49 7071 29 86621; Fax. + 49 7071 29 4046; e-m...

Lung complications during postoperative of pediatric heart surgery are frequently highlighting atelectasis and pneumonia. Physiotherapy has an important role in the treatment of these complications. We reviewed and update the physiotherapy performance in the preoperative and in the postoperative lung complication of pediatric cardiac surgery. We noted efficacy of physiotherapy treatment through...