Monday, December 1, 2008

First Topic: How do we really manage patients with mediastinal masses?

Mediastinal masses are common in pediatric anesthesia practice. Many practitioners fear patients that present with a mediastinal mass because of the risk of cardiovascular collapse and inability to ventilate that has been reported. There is a lot of folklore that has been written about the evaluation and management of these patients. The question is what do people really do? Let me hear from you.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought, the one thing not to do is paralyze the patient...got to read more about it though.sanjay

Rae Brown, MD said...

Good thought...Read my latest entry to the blog.

Rae

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