Boston—Although it’s true that anesthesia is not a cookie-cutter approach for every surgery, for medialization thyroplasty, the patient’s voice has to be monitored during surgery, making for unique management.
Because the patient has to undergo different levels of sedation, researchers from Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., introduced a new mix of drugs (dexmedetomidine, remifentanil and propofol) in an attempt to improve the surgery—which sometimes included arytenoid