Main description:

Part of the World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain - Pediatric Anesthesia series, this book presents evidence-based reviews on topics in paediatric anaesthesia, to provide practitioners and trainees with an up to date understanding of the subject.

Beginning with articles on anaesthesia used for different surgical procedures, the following sections discuss challenges in anaesthesia for thoracic surgery in infants and perioperative care for neonatal emergencies.

Further topics include perioperative complications of anaesthesia in children, neurotoxicity of anaesthesia on the developing brain, and ethical issues.

Each article is supplemented by editors' comments highlighting their own personal, clinical experience.

Key points

Part of the World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain - Pediatric Anesthesia series
Presents evidence-based reviews of latest advances and thinking in the field
Each article supplemented by editors' comments based on clinical experience

Contents:

Editorial
Abbreviations
Anesthesia for Neurosurgical Procedures in Children
Anesthesia for Long-duration Laparoscopic Procedures in Children
Challenges in Anesthesia for Thoracoscopic Surgery in Infants
Anesthesia and Perioperative Care for Neonatal Emergencies
Blood Dyscrasias and Anesthesia in Children
Perioperative Complications of Anesthesia in Children
Neurotoxicity of Anesthesia on Developing Brain
Ethical Issues in Pediatric Anesthesiology