[General anesthesia in infants].

It is generally accepted, that the progress in surgical treatment of congenital malformation is closely related to the progress in highly-specialised methods of newborn anaesthesia. The safe methods of anaesthesia have to be adapted to anatomical and physiological peculiarities of the earliest days of life as well as to different reaction to drugs and anaesthetics. The preoperative preparation in newborns used to be often very short, because most of the problems of the neonatal period are emergency surgical interventions and there is no time for treatment even of the serious disturbances of basic physiological functions.

[Naloxone as a drug for improving anesthesia results in children].

In anaesthesiology of today, due to the increased use of strong analgetics, it is necessary to have an effective antagonist for mini- mizing the danger of respiratory depression in postoperative period. Naloxone, ( Narcan , R-Endo Laboratories Inc., Subsidiary of E.

Anaphylactic shock following althesin. A case report.

The authors present a case of anaphylactic shock in a 9-year-old girl with heamorrhagic rash developing during anaesthesia. Shock was controlled with steroids, antihistamine drugs and dextran. The authors find it important to consider the possibility of the development of intravascular clotting in anaphylactic shock and the necessity of seeking a history of any allergy in patients before althesin anaesthesia.