A three-year-old girl was scheduled for tonsillectomy.

The anesthetist decided that induction of anesthesia be performed by inhalation, and that intubation be accomplished with intramuscular succinylcholine (Anectine) if necessary.

case author: Hugh S. Mathewson, M.D., Professor Emeritus, School of Allied Health, Department of Nurse Anesthesia, University of Kansas Medical Center
case editor: Michael Gordon, Ph.D.