You are working in the MRI suite of a major regional hospital providing general anaesthesia.
Your next patient is a 35 year-old woman with sensorineural hearing loss for a brain MRI. She requires anaesthesia because of severe anxiety and claustrophobia. Her completed Patient Health Questionnaire is attached.
She received oral diazepam 10 mg one hour ago as premedication. She is calm and mildly sedated in the anaesthesia room adjacent to the MRI scanner.
Sections covered in this viva
Assessment and Anaesthetic Plan for MRIManagement of Compromised LMA During ScanUnanticipated Difficult Airway in MRI