Abstract

VAZQUEZ-SOTO, Héctor. Patologías asociadas a la vía aérea difícil. Anest. Méx. [online]. 2017, vol.29, suppl.1, pp.9-29. ISSN 2448-8771.

There is a wide variety of diseases throughout the life of an individual, which invariably impact on moments such as tracheal intubation, and which increase morbidity by anesthesia. There is no accurate predictive index to 100% for tracheal intubation, predictive indexes of difficult intubation are varied, and there are a lot of them, so they are only important airway management guidelines, although they can be approximated to the reality of life quite successfully however their failures or drastic changes, for example in the obstetric patient, where a score of a scale can change quickly during the stay in the work, in only a few hours. This has given origin to a large number of scales described in world literature. By contrast in an older child the pediatric airway is more challenging than in an adult, although the airway advance is not uncommon. The most frequent cause of mortality in children is hypoxia, most common in the newborn and infant that in an older child, this is due to increased consumption of oxygen and a poor reserve of the same. Failures to recognize complicated airway in the newborn are frequent and are usually of congenital origin, a few are from acquired type. The majority of adult airway devices have been applied in children with considerable success.

Keywords : Difficult airway in the adult and in the child; Pathologies associated with difficult airway.

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