OBJECTIVE To determine the methods of anesthesia currently being used by pediatric rheumatologists when performing intra-articular corticosteroid injections (IACI). STUDY DESIGN A questionnaire was emailed to all members of the Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance, a pediatric rheumatology research network in North America. The questionnaire consisted of 11 questions ranging f...

BACKGROUND Determining the most suitable anesthesia method for circumcision surgery plays a fundamental role in pediatric surgery. This study is aimed to present pediatric surgeons' perspective on the relative importance of the criteria for selecting anesthesia method for circumcision surgery by utilizing the multi-criteria decision making methods. METHODS Fuzzy set theory offers a useful too...

Objectives: Desflurane may be useful for ambulatory anesthesia. However, desflurane-induced airway irritability makes its use challenging, especially in children. Ketamine can used to reduce separation anxiety and emergence agitation (EA). ketamine increase bronchial secretions. This study compared desflurane with sevoflurane anesthesia, terms of time EA, preschool children intravenous (IV) pre...

background: pediatric oncology patients frequently need several painful procedures during their diagnostic and therapeutic process. during the past decades, most centers abroad have developed safe and effective protocols for procedural sedation and analgesia in children. this report describes procedural sedation and analgesia as performed in pediatric oncology unit and tries to report success o...

In 1998 the World Health Organization declared childhood obesity a 'global epidemic' (WHO, 1998). The Department of Health has identified that prevention must be aimed at children to address its rise in future generations (DoH, 2002). Childhood obesity is recognised as a predictor of adolescent and adult obesity (Smith, 2002; Parsons et al, 1999; Whitaker et al, 1997). Without intervention to p...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Surgical interventions, including video-assisted thoracoscopic surgeries, are increasingly being performed in the neonatal and pediatric populations. Thoracic anesthesia in infants and children poses special challenges for the anesthesiologist. These include assessment of the patient's clinical condition, obtaining and maintaining single lung ventilation, and maintaining adequ...

April 2014 • Volume 118 • Number 4 Copyright © 2013 International Anesthesia Research Society DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000089 Pediatric anesthesiology as a subspecialty in the United States traces its origins to the post–World War II era when Dr. Robert M. Smith joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital and devoted his career exclusively to this new subspecia...

BACKGROUND Inadequate access to oral health care places children at risk of caries. Disease severity and inability to cooperate often result in treatment with general anesthesia (GA). Sedation is increasingly popular and viewed as lower risk than GA in community settings. Currently, few data are available to quantify pediatric morbidity and mortality related to dental anesthesia. OBJECTIVE Su...

Background: This study aimed to compare pregabalin and midazolam premedication in pediatric day-case surgery regarding anesthetic analgesic requirements.Methods: Sixty patients scheduled for were randomly premedicated orally with either (Group P) or M). Intraoperative requirements assessed as primary outcomes. Modified Ramsay Sedation Score (RSS), hemodynamic variables, time eye opening extubat...

INTRODUCTION Although blood pressure (BP) monitoring is a recommended standard of care by the ASA, and pediatric anesthesiologists routinely monitor the BP of their patients and when appropriate treat deviations from 'normal', there is no robust definition of hypotension in any of the pediatric anesthesia texts or journals. Consequently, what constitutes hypotension in pediatric anesthesia is c...