Pediatric Anesthesiology Special Issue

Special Issue

Introduction to the special issue: pediatric overweight.

Over the past three decades, overweight has become a major health problem among children and adolescents. Using ageand gender-adjusted growth charts for children, overweight is defined as body mass index (BMI) (weight in kg/height in m) >95th percentile and at risk for overweight is defined as BMI >85th and <95th percentile (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006). There is no agreed-...

Simulation in pediatric anesthesiology.

Simulation-based training, research and quality initiatives are expanding in pediatric anesthesiology just as in other medical specialties. Various modalities are available, from task trainers to standardized patients, and from computer-based simulations to mannequins. Computer-controlled mannequins can simulate pediatric vital signs with reasonable reliability; however the fidelity of skin tem...

Introduction to the special issue: sleep in pediatric medical populations.

Children and adolescents with acute and chronic medical conditions such as asthma, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and sickle cell disease (SCD) are reported to have more frequent and severe problems with sleep than their healthy peers (Passarelli et al., 2006; Yuksel et al., 2007). Multiple factors, including both acute and chronic pain (Palermo, 2000), underlying disease processes, concurrent ...

Special issue on pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.

On May 23 and 24, 2013, the First PANS Consensus Conference was convened at Stanford University, calling together a geographically diverse group of clinicians and researchers from complementary fields of pediatrics: General and developmental pediatrics, infectious diseases, immunology, rheumatology, neurology, and child psychiatry. Participants were academicians with clinical and research inter...