Pediatric Anesthesia

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Does take-home analgesia improve postoperative pain after elective day case surgery? A comparison of hospital vs parent-supplied analgesia.
Mary Hegarty, Alyson Calder, Kylie Davies

Protective effect of esmolol on myocardial ischemic injury during open heart surgery in children
Ping Gui, Qingping Wu, Jing Wu and Shanglong Yao

Endoscopic airway findings in children with or without prior endotracheal intubation
Markus Weiss, Mital Dave, Martin Bailey, Claudine Gysin, Hans Hoeve, Jürg Hammer, Thomas Nicolai, Nelly Spielmann and Andreas Gerber

Protective effect of esmolol on myocardial ischemic injury during open heart surgery in children
Ping Gui, Qingping Wu, Jing Wu and Shanglong Yao

The paracetamol concentration-effect relation in neonates
Karel Allegaert, Gunnar Naulaers, Sophie Vanhaesebrouck, Brian J Anderson

Cannot ventilate – paralyze!
Markus Weiss, Thomas Engelhardt

Administration of ketamine to children with pulmonary hypertension is safe: pro-con debate: Pro Argument
Glyn D. Williams, Robert H. Friesen

Ultrasound guidance characteristics and efficiency of suprazygomatic maxillary nerve blocks in infants: a descriptive prospective study
Chrystelle Sola, Olivier Raux, Laurent Savath, Christine Macq, Xavier Capdevila, Christophe Dadure

Role of ultrasound compared to age-related formulas for uncuffed endotracheal intubation in a pediatric population
Christoph Schramm, Jana Knop, Katrin Jensen, Konstanze Plaschke

Is ethnicity associated with morphine’s side effects in children? Morphine pharmacokinetics, analgesic response, and side effects in children having tonsillectomy
Nathalia Jimenez, Gail D. Anderson, Danny D. Shen, et al.

Smartphone applications for pediatric anesthesia
Rahul Bhansali and James Armstrong

An audit of anesthetic management and complications of tracheo-esophageal fistula and esophageal atresia repair
Graham Knottenbelt, David Costi, Philip Stephens, et al.

Resuscitation strategies from bupivacaine-induced cardiac arrest
Jacqueline Mauch, Olga Martin Jurado, Nelly Spielmann, Regula Bettschart-Wolfensberger, Markus Weiss

Pro con debate: the use of regional vs systemic analgesia for neonatal surgery
Adrian T Bösenberg, Martin Jöhr and Andrew R Wolf

Pro-con debate: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) for pediatric cardiac surgery should routinely be performed and interpreted by a pediatric cardiac anesthetist
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Cameron Graydon, Sally Wilmshurst and Crispin Best

Postoperative adverse respiratory events in preschool patients with inhaled foreign bodies: an analysis of 505 cases
Xu Zhang, Wenxian Li, Yinzi Chen

A hitch-hiker’s guide to the intravenous PK/PD galaxy
Anthony R. Absalom, Hugo E.M. Vereecke, Douglas J. Eleveld

Experimental model of laryngotracheal stenosis in infants: effects of different high-frequency jet ventilation patterns on pulmonary parameters
Gerlinde Mausser, Angelika Schellauf, Michael Scherübl, Andreas Arrer & Gerhard Schwarz

Anesthesia and neurotoxicity to the developing brain: the clinical relevance
Andrew J. Davidson

Ketamine for perioperative pain management in children: a meta-analysis of published studies
Souhayl Dahmani, Daphné Michelet, Paer-Selim Abback, Chantal Wood, Christopher Brasher, Yves Nivoche and Jean Mantz

Brain temperature: heat production, elimination and clinical relevance
Gianluca Bertolizio, Linda Mason and Bruno Bissonnette

What happens when things go wrong?
Barbara W. Brandom, Patrick Callahan, Dale Ann Micalizzi

Emergency cricothyrotomy in infants – evaluation of a novel device in an animal model
T. Metterlein, M. Frommer, P. Kwok, S. Lyer, B.M. Graf and B. Sinner

Principles of hemostasis in children: models and maturation
Nina A. Guzzetta and Bruce E. Miller

Epidemiology and morbidity of regional anesthesia in children: a follow-up one-year prospective survey of the French-Language Society of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists (ADARPEF)
CLAUDE ECOFFEY, FRÉDÉRIC LACROIX, ELISABETH GIAUFRÉ, GILLES ORLIAGUET and PHILIPPE COURRÈGES, ASSOCIATION DES ANESTHÉSISTES RÉANIMATEURS PÉDIATRIQUES D’EXPRESSION FRANÇAISE (ADARPEF)