Pediatric upper respiratory infection: You cancelled the case and told the parents to reschedule, right?

Abstract

After travelling 3 h early one morning in September, a young family registers their 4-year-old son at the preoperative desk for a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (T&A) with Dr. Rhino. The child is placed in a pre-op evaluation room, and the nurse obtains vital signs and assesses the patient. The newly minted pediatric anesthesiology fellow reviews the chart outside the room and notes an otherwise healthy 4-year-old with sleep disordered breathing and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) diagnosed by a formal sleep study presenting for T&A.