Spinal Anesthesia in Children: Most Pediatric Urologists Are Not On Board

Thank you for this thoughtful comment. Several of the authors are in agreement with your points and are advocates for the use of spinal anesthesia in selective infants undergoing urological surgery. We need to emphasize though that the goal of our study was not to espouse our views of the state of the science in this area, but rather to report on the current opinions of pediatric urologists regarding the use of spinal anesthesia in their cases. Whether their patients might be better served by using more spinal anesthesia is a different question, but we did find that general anesthesia remains the preferred option and that it is used by the majority of respondents.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Urology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research