Epidural versus general anesthesia for open pyloromyotomy in infants: a retrospective observational study.

CONCLUSIONS: In our series, maintaining spontaneous breathing with minimal airway manipulation in patients undergoing open repair of hypertrophic pyloric stenosis under single-shot epidural anesthesia resulted in fewer desaturation events ≤90% than general anesthesia. In addition, this approach seems to result in shorter turnover times in the operating room. PMID: 33368903 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Paediatric Anaesthesia - December 25, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Opfermann P, Wiener C, Schmid W, Zadrazil M, Metzelder M, Kimberger O, Marhofer P Tags: Paediatr Anaesth Source Type: research