[Experience in tube feeding of children in intensive care].

Tube feeding was used in 97 children aged 0 to 8 years hospitalized in intensive care wards. Daily rations were calculated on the basis of daily requirements. The feeding was carried out continuously or intermittently.

[The carbohydrate-energy metabolic and hemodynamic status of children with diffuse suppurative peritonitis in the early postoperative period].

Thirty-three children with grave peritonitis were examined 16-24 h after operation. The groups were matched for the hemodynamic status. Group 1 were patients with moderate hyperdynamic status, group 2 those with the extreme hyperdynamic status, and group 3--patients with hypodynamic status.

[High epidural anesthesia in the correction of congenital heart defects with artificial circulation in children].

Effects of high thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA) on hemodynamics were studied in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery. In 7 patients aged 3-7 years, TEA was used as an adjunct to standard oxygen-air-isoflurane anesthesia. We prefer using a combination of lidocaine with fentanyl for epidural anesthesia.

[The interrelationship of changes in carbohydrate-energy metabolism and potassium homeostasis in children with diffuse suppurative peritonitis].

The parameters of potassium homeostasis (potassium concentration in the plasma, red cells, and urine and potassium to sodium ratio in the urine) and of carbohydrate-energy metabolism (CEM) assessed from the activities of the key enzymes of glycolysis and pentose phosphate route of glucose oxidation were determined in 52 patients on day 2 postoperation. Relationships between potassium metabolism and CEM status were revealed in children with diffuse peritonitis. Disorders in potassium homeostasis were associated with CEM changes.