Anesthetic Considerations in Microlaryngoscopy and Direct Laryngoscopy

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ABSTRACT Patients for microlaryngoscopy (ML Scopy) and direct laryngoscopy (DL Scopy) may present to the anesthesiologist from all ages, including pediatric, adult, and geriatric age groups. Proper preoperative evaluation, adequate intraoperative care, monitoring, and postoperative monitoring will provide successful outcome in these patients. These procedures are daycare procedures. The aim of anesthesiologist while dealing with such patients is maintaining adequate depth of anesthesia, maintaining adequate ventilation to the patients while giving enough time to the surgeon to diagnose and evaluate the definitive cause of airway disease. Anesthesiologists need to share the airway or maintain the ventilation in such a way as to give the surgeon proper and good visualization of the patient's airway. Use of shortacting and potent anesthetic agents will provide adequate intraoperative depth of anesthesia and speed up awakening and hence the postoperative recovery of the patient. How to cite this article Nirgude A, Hemantkumar I. Anesthetic Considerations in Microlaryngoscopy and Direct Laryngoscopy. Int J Otorhinolaryngol Clin 2017;9(1):10-14.