Eduardo Mekitarian Filho, Werther Brunow de Carvalho, Sérgio Cavalheiro, Nelson Kazunobu Horigoshi, Norberto Antonio Freddi, Gil Kruppa Vieira I Pediatrics and Sciences Applied to Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Pediatric Emergency Department, University Hospital of Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and Admissions Unit of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Pediatric Inte...

Ethical issues in the field of pediatric neurosurgery, including prenatal diagnosis, palliative care for children with an intractable serious disease, and medical neglect, are discussed. An important role of medicine is to offer every possible treatment to a patient. However, it also is the responsibility of medicine to be conscious of its limitations, and to help parents love and respect a chi...

OBJECTIVES To describe the main pathophysiological differences in neurosurgical procedures between children and adults; the main complications and adverse events resulting from pediatric neurosurgery reported in studies; the singularities in anesthetic and intraoperative management in several neurosurgical diseases; the more specific and common complications and their management in the most fre...

Pediatric stroke is a relatively rare occurrence, with an annual incidence of 1.2–13 cases per 100,000. Hemorrhagic strokes account for half of these cases.[28] In adults, hemorrhagic strokes are predominantly hypertensive in etiology. However, in the pediatric population, they are frequently associated with vascular lesions such as AVMs (47%), arteriovenous fistulas, or CMs [Table 1].[21] Othe...

Hydrocephalus is a common problem in Neurosurgery and Neurology. The usual treatment is the installation of a Ventricular Peritoneal Shunt (VPS). Infection is the most frequent and serious complication. With the aim to identify risk factors associated with infection in the post surgery of VPS in pediatric patients from Carlos Van Buren Hospital a case control study between 1998-2008 was done. C...

patients presenting to Children Hospital, Faisalabad. Materials and Methods: Retrospective case series of 778 consecutive cases admitted in Pediatric Neurosurgery Department, Faisalabad over one year (October 2019- September 2020). Patients age less than 15 years, any gender, ward for management were included studied their demographic data hospital stay, a procedure done outcome. Results: A tot...

The Handbook of Neurosurgery 8th Edition by Mark S. Greenberg is an excellent reference for rapid review when a decision about a clinical situation requires a quick review of relevant and adequately detailed information. In this way, The Handbook of Neurosurgery is much more useful in most clinical situations than many of the multi-volume neurosurgery texts available today. The updated version ...

1. Introduction Infants and children undergoing anesthesia for neurosurgical procedures present unique challenges for the anesthesiologist. Advances in neurosurgical techniques and technology have changed the face of pediatric neurosurgery and led to improved outcomes for pediatric neurosurgical patients. Basic concepts of neuroanesthesia care are similar in all ages. In this review, we will fo...

With over 90 practicing neurosurgeons in the country, should we be developing sub-specialty neurosurgery? 
 The number of trained manpower has risen steadily, since neurosurgery was first practiced Nepal 1961.1Though are halfway to milestone achieving a ratio 1 neurosurgeon for every lac population, situation here is much better than other Sub-Saharan African and south east Asian countries...