Abstract
With the focus on an idiographic approach whereby the observations incorporated the various dimensions of individual functioning ‘top-down’ to ‘bottom-up’, this case report describes the successful management of a 14-year-old girl with Kearns-Sayre syndrome and Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen disease requiring a transvenous permanent pacemaker implantation for complete heart block. The patient presented to a tertiary care centre in Muscat, Oman, in 2023 seeking consultation. The current idiographic approach appears to have a heuristic value for 2 interrelated reasons. Firstly, it is unlikely that even tertiary care units can accrue such rare presentations and scrutinise them under nomothetic approach. Secondly, by employing the idiographic approach that is capable of examining each case in-depth, the aspiration for good health and well-being may come to the forefront. To the best of the authors’ knowledge this is the first published idiographic report in anaesthesia care.
Publication Date
11-30-2023
First Page
63
Last Page
67
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Recommended Citation
Maddali, Madan M.; Munasinghe, Thushara D.; Aamri, Is'haq Al; Al-Abri, Ismail A.; and Al-Adawi, Samir
(2023)
"Propofol and Kearns-Sayre Syndrome,"
Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal: Vol. 23: 63-67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18295/squmj.12.2023.080
