Experience with Combining Pediatric Procedures into a Single Anesthetic.

Unlabelled: The combination of multiple procedures within a single anesthetic may provide many challenges for the perioperative team. Coordination of specialties, consideration for parental time burdens, and travel expenses as well as limiting multiple anesthetic exposures to the children are pertinent factors to consider when advocating the combination of surgical procedures.

Methods: The electronic medical record at Nationwide Children's Hospital was retrospectively queried to obtain information on patients having a single anesthetic encounter for 2 or more procedures involving 2 or more services over 1 year (July 2015-June 2016).