Publications by authors named "Paolo Busoni"
Background: The induction of anaesthesia for surgery is a stressful time for both child and parents. To treat preoperative anxiety in children, pharmacological methods (premedication) and behavioural methods (the presence of parents during the induction of anaesthesia) have been used, both independently and in combination. The purpose of this investigation was to study the effect of both premedication and parental presence on preoperative anxiety in a homogeneous population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tumescent local anesthesia is a technique for regional anesthesia of the skin and the subcutaneous tissue, using infiltration of large volumes of local anesthetic. The advantages of this technique are (1) simplicity, (2) prolonged postoperative analgesia, (3) low incidence of bleeding, and (4) anesthetization of a large area of the body. There are no reports on the use of tumescent local anesthesia in pediatric patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In this study, we compared the analgesic efficacy of ketoprofen lysine salt (OKi) suppositories) vs paracetamol, in children undergoing minor surgery. We also studied the side-effects of the treatment.
Methods: Eighty-five children of both sexes, aged 6-14 years, were enrolled in a multicentre, randomized, single-blind, parallel-group study design.
Background: Motion sickness is considered an important risk factor for postoperative nausea and vomiting in children. The aim of this study was to verify the impact of motion sickness on the incidence of vomiting after routine surgery in children, and to compare the incidence of vomiting, after combined regional/general anaesthesia, using either halothane or sevoflurane.
Methods: We prospectively studied 420 children (369 males and 51 females) who received general anaesthesia and inguinal field block for common paediatric surgery.