SELECTING METHOD FOR PROVIDING PATENCY OF AIRWAYS ACCOMPANYING ANAESTHETIC SUPPORT IN INFANTS WITH CONGENITAL DEFECTS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61M16/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: child is examined to study the external dento-facial visualised structures: an upper lip, an intermaxillary bone, an osteochondral segment of the nose. If observing a right-sided complete and partial cleft lip with non-displaced intermaxillary bone, or a two-sided partial cleft lip with non-displaced intermaxillary bone, or atypical cleft face with undeformed osteochondral segment of the nose, tracheal intubation is performed using an endotracheal tube according to the intubation record. If observing two-sided complete cleft lip, or atypical cleft face with deformed osteochondral segment of the nose, or displaced intermaxillary bone with any cleft type, or left-sided cleft, a laryngeal mask is placed.

EFFECT: substantial reduction of time and quantity of intubation attempts ensured by optimising an approach to choosing the anaesthetic support in the children with the given pathologies caused by reporting the classification of congenital orofacial clefts.

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