Etiology of postanesthetic and postsedation events on the inpatient ward: data from a rapid response team at a tertiary care children's hospital.

Introduction: The goal of this study was to identify the etiology of events and demographics of patients that experience complications requiring activation of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) during the first 24 h following anesthetic care.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review of the Quality Improvement database from the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital. The database was searched to identify those patients who had a RRT evaluation activated within 24 h of receiving anesthesia or procedural sedation.

A comparison of functional magnetic resonance imaging findings in children with and without a history of early exposure to general anesthesia.

Background: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to evaluate the long-term consequences of early exposure to neurotoxic agents. fMRI shows that different patterns of brain activation occur in ethanol-exposed subjects performing a go/no-go response inhibition task. Pharmacologically, ethanol and general anesthetics have similar receptor-level activity in the brain.

A randomized trial comparing sevoflurane and propofol in children undergoing MRI scans.

Objectives: We compared three primary outcomes of pausing the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, emergence quality and respiratory complications.

Aim: To measure and compare the quality between sevoflurane and propofol in children undergoing MRI scans.

Background: No randomized controlled trial exists comparing the quality between sevoflurane and propofol for MRI.