New York—A new approach to anesthesia for use during medialization thyroplasty, a procedure to correct unilateral vocal cord paralysis, has been found to allow analgesia while also enabling patients to respond to verbal commands.
“Thyroplasty surgery is intricate and requires near-perfect coordination of anesthesia and surgery for optimal conditions,” said Denise Wedel, MD, professor of anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. “The ideal approach allows for a