Anaesthesia for surgery in infancy

Publication date: Available online 25 January 2020Source: Anaesthesia & Intensive Care MedicineAuthor(s): Graham Knottenbelt, Amanda DaltonAbstractSpecialist surgery in infancy provides challenges for paediatric anaesthetists. There is growing appreciation that the relatively higher rate of severe critical events in infants during the perioperative period requires appropriate competence, experience and resources for the safe conduct of anaesthesia. Both common (inguinal hernias and hypertrophic pyloric stenosis) and less common conditions (tracheo-oesophageal fistula, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, exomphalos, gastroschisis, and congenital lobar emphysema) require a sound understanding of the relevant pathology and the particular issues that may be encountered in these infants. In the last decade there has been a rise in the number of procedures in infancy being performed with a minimally invasive technique and this has a wide range of implications for anaesthesia.
Source: Anaesthesia and intensive care medicine - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research