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Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Stephan Eschertzhuber, MD, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Leopold-Franzens University 6020, Innsbruck, Austria. Address electronic mail to stephan.eschertzhuber{at}uibk.ac.at.
The ex utero intrapartum treatment (EXIT) procedure provides time to secure the airway of the fetus while utero-placental circulation supplies the fetus with oxygen. We report the anesthetic management of a fetus with a large neck mass during an EXIT procedure in which the confirmation of correct endotracheal intubation was hampered by parts of the mass, blood, and other fluids. The use of a standard end-tidal carbon dioxide probe provided a reliable signal and proved the endotracheal position of the tube while utero-placental circulation was still intact.
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