Early extubation of a patient in the operating room after prolonged glomus jugulare tumor surgical resection: a case report

Abstract

The excision of glomus jugulare tumor as an infrequently highly vascular tumor has many risks and problems for anesthesiologists. Early extubation causes short length of hospitalization and less complications. As there are scant articles about early extubation for it, this encouraged us to report early extubation after prolonged anesthesia for glomus jugulare tumor excision. General anesthesia was performed with the combined use of intravenous anesthetic agents and isoflurane in a convulsive female. After 13 hours and 40 minutes of surgery, she was successfully extubated in the operative room. Therefore, early extubation in selected patient is possible after such a prolonged surgery.