Pediatric difficult extubation: The end of the movie matters!

Nicola Disma¹, John Fiadjoe^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Unit for Research & Innovation, Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Editorial

Nicola Disma et al. Paediatr Anaesth. 2022 May.

. 2022 May;32(5):590-591.

doi: 10.1111/pan.14388.

Nicola Disma¹, John Fiadjoe^{2

3}

¹ Unit for Research & Innovation, Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: airway; complications; extubation; intubation; pediatric anesthesia.

Comment on

Developing an Extubation strategy for the difficult pediatric airway-Who, when, why, where, and how?
Weatherall AD, Burton RD, Cooper MG, Humphreys SR. Weatherall AD, et al. Paediatr Anaesth. 2022 May;32(5):592-599. doi: 10.1111/pan.14411. Epub 2022 Feb 25. Paediatr Anaesth. 2022. PMID: 35150181 Free PMC article. Review.

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