Subglottic stenosis complicating the anaesthetic management of a newborn with Fraser syndrome

Delivery of anesthesia and complications for children with Fraser syndrome: a review of 125 anesthetics

“…Two cases of significant airway difficulty resulted in a difficult intubation and an impossible intubation. There is a single case report in the literature of difficult but possible intubation requiring a significantly smaller ETT than expected (8). There is also a single case report of an infant with an impossible laryngeal intubation requiring the formation of a surgical tracheostomy as an emergency (9).…”

“…Children with Fraser syndrome present for a wide variety of surgical procedures including syndactyly repair and ophthalmic correction. To date, there have only been individual case reports in the literature describing complications of general anesthesia which included subglottic stenosis with difficult intubation and impossible laryngeal intubation requiring emergency tracheostomy . There is a case report of retrograde intubation being used in anticipation of a difficult airway .…”