Pediatric Upper Respiratory Infection: You Cancelled the Case and Told the Parents to Reschedule, Right?

Blasiole, Brian

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Pediatric Upper Respiratory Infection: You Cancelled the Case and Told the Parents to Reschedule, Right?

Brian Blasiole⁶

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First Online: 12 November 2016

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After travelling 3 h early one morning in September, a young family registers their 4-year-old son at the preoperative desk for a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (T&A) with Dr. Rhino. The child is placed in a pre-op evaluation room, and the nurse obtains vital signs and assesses the patient. The newly minted pediatric anesthesiology fellow reviews the chart outside the room and notes an otherwise healthy 4-year-old with sleep disordered breathing and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) diagnosed by a formal sleep study presenting for T&A.

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Department of Anesthesiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 4401 Penn Avenue, Suite 5643, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15224, USA
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Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Corey S. Scher
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Anna Clebone
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology (Emeritus), Former Assistant Director of Anesthesiology, Bellevue Hospital Center Retired from Department of Anesthesiology, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Sanford M. Miller
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Bellevue Hospital Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, New York, New York, USA
J. David Roccaforte
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care and Pain Medicine, Vice Chair Faculty Promotion Associate Director Anesthesia Service Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA
Levon M. Capan

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Blasiole, B. (2017). Pediatric Upper Respiratory Infection: You Cancelled the Case and Told the Parents to Reschedule, Right?. In: Scher, C., Clebone, A., Miller, S., Roccaforte, J., Capan, L. (eds) You’re Wrong, I’m Right. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43169-7_31

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43169-7_31
Published: 12 November 2016
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