Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Abstract

Anaesthetic Management of an Adult Patient with Diaphragmatic Eventration

Azhar Rehman, Zafar Ali Mirza, Saad Yousuf and Asma Abdus Salam

This case report presents the anaesthetic management of an adult male, who had epidermal inclusion cyst of
neck with incidental findings of diaphragmatic eventration, dextro position of heart and pituitary macro adenoma, but
the patient was clinically asymptomatic, planned for neck exploration and excision of cyst. Induction of anaesthesia
was uneventful, Intra operatively patient became hypoxic and hypotensive probably due to increase in shunting
fraction, norepinephrine infusion was started; blood pressure and oxygen saturation improved, at the end of surgery
patient was successfully extubated, rest of the course was unremarkable.