Successful Management of Difficult Airway in an Adult Patient of Turner Syndrome

Abstract

The inability to successfully manage a difficult airway is responsible for 600 annual deaths, 30% of which are attributable to anesthesia [1]. According to Gil, et al., 18% of patients are difficult to intubate, 5% are difficult to oxygenate and between 0.004 and 0.008% cannot be intubated or oxygenated [2]. Treating patients with genetic abnormalities is a challenge. Turner syndrome is a disease that has a prevalence of 2000 to 2500 alive, female children [3]. It is a result of partial or complete X chromosome monosomy [4]. It is not odd these patients need surgery for other causes from their genetic pathology. The present case emphasizes on the increasing difficulty of airway management on patients with Turner syndrome and the use of videolaringoscope and tube introducer [5].