Background Sedation is crucial part of the management of cochlear implant surgery.
Preoperative anxiety is more aggravated in deaf children due to limited communication. The …

Background Disparities exist throughout health care. One population that are often
overlooked are patients with hearing loss. Hearing loss can be graded as mild, moderate …

Successful management of a pregnant patient with complex congenital heart disease is a
challenge for anesthesiologists, requiring thorough knowledge of the impact of pregnancy …

This review article aims to address the perioperative course of the child with special needs
presenting to theatre. It focuses mainly on children with an intellectual disability presenting …

This report describes a patient with Goldenhar syndrome undergoing anesthesia for whom
Macintosh videolaryngoscopy failed, as the epiglottis was adhered to the posterior pharynx …

Congenitally deaf and mute adult patients have speech and language disabilities.
Establishing meaningful communication with these patients is a challenge in acute hospital …

DISCUSSION Every clinical interaction depends on communication and this can be
seriously limited or distorted when the patient is deaf. As per 2018 WHO estimates, 466 …

The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form,
the patient's father has given his consent for the patient's images and other clinical …