Anesthetic Management of Labial and Palatin Slots During a Humanitarian Mission at Matlaboul Fawzaini Hospital of Touba

Cleft lip and palate surgery in Senegal is often carried out on humanitarian missions by indigenous specialists supported by humanitarian agencies. Diagnostic and therapeutic delays often linked to poverty and the scarcity of information on these deformities remain among the major challenges. The anesthetic management is confronted with a non-negligible risk of difficult intubation and respiratory complications. The objective of this study was to report the epidemiological, therapeutic and evolutionary data of this first experiment of the anesthetic management of nasolabial slits in the context of a humanitarian mission at the Matlaboul Fawzaini hospital in Touba. Twenty-six patients were scheduled for the mission. Surgery was performed on twenty-four patients and two patients were recused because of a time problem. Sixteen were female and eight were male. The median age was 42 months