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Case 92: A Straightforward Case, or Is It?

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Today you are to anesthetize a 4-year-old child for an elective orchidopexy. You meet the mother and the child in the preoperative area. The mother tells you that he is on a waiting list for an adenotonsillectomy (T/A).

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  1. Livesey JR, Solomons NB, Gillies EAD. Emergency adenotonsillectomy for acute postoperative upper airway obstruction. Anaesthesia. 1991;46:36–7.

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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2017). Case 92: A Straightforward Case, or Is It?. In: Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71467-7_92

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