Fast-track recovery after day case surgery.

Background: Fast-track recovery processes are implemented for pediatric day case surgery. We conducted a prospective study to evaluate postoperative comfort and parental satisfaction of children included in this process to improve quality of care.

Methods: We included all children scheduled for superficial procedures or dental treatment outside the operating room.

Anaesthetic management of an adolescent for scoliosis surgery with a Fontan circulation.

Advances in the treatment of congenital heart disease have led to a new group of adolescents or adults patients with cardiac anomalies. The anaesthetic management of these patients can be challenging especially when they are scheduled for major noncardiac surgery inducing haemodynamic instability. We report the case of a 14-year-old boy scheduled for posterior spinal fusion for idiopathic scoliosis who underwent a Fontan operation in infancy for pulmonary atresia with right ventricle hypoplasia.

Management of an infant with diffuse bullous pulmonary lesions using high-frequency oscillatory ventilation.

Purpose: To describe the anesthetic and ventilatory management of an infant with diffuse pulmonary bullous lesions.

Clinical Features: Four successive operations were scheduled for an infant with diffuse pulmonary bullous lesions. At the age of seven weeks, conventional positive pressure ventilation during laparotomy for intestinal occlusion led to arterial desaturation.

Pleuropulmonary blastoma: a rare pathology with an even rarer presentation.

Background: Pleuropulmonary blastoma is among the rarest tumors of childhood. Three types have been described: cystic, solid, and mixed. To date, bilateral disease has not been documented.