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Cureus
December 2024
Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Raipur, IND.
Postoperative pain in children leads to an immense stress response than adults, leading to an increased hospital stay and "pain memory." Caudal epidural anesthesia is one of the most reliable, popular, and safe techniques that provide proper analgesia for infra-umbilical surgeries. A combination of local anesthetics and opioids reduces the dose-related adverse effects of each drug independently.
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December 2024
Anesthesia Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Jeddah, SAU.
Local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) is a well-known life-threatening local anesthetics complication, especially if given in inappropriate doses or routes. Therefore, physicians should be aware of LAST symptoms, such as neurological and cardiac symptoms. In addition, they should always consider it in the differential diagnosis when they encounter similar symptoms.
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January 2025
Department of Anaesthesiology, The Aga Khan University and Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
Objective: To explore the impact of perioperative intravenous (IV) paracetamol, administered with caudal ropivacaine on the quality of postoperative recovery in children undergoing hypospadias repair.
Study Design: Double-blinded randomised controlled trial. Place and Duration of the Study: The operating room, post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU), and paediatric surgical ward at the Aga Khan University Hospital, from 31st January 2019 to 1st May 2022.
Trials
January 2025
Department of Anesthesiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Background: Surgical intervention is critical in the treatment of hip developmental dysplasia in children. Perioperative analgesia, usually based on high opioid dosages, is frequently used in these patients. In some circumstances, regional anesthetic procedures such as caudal block and lumbar plexus block have also been used.
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January 2025
Department of Anesthesia, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Background: In children, monitoring depth of anesthesia is challenging because of the still developing brain. Electroencephalographic density spectral array monitoring provides age- and anesthetic drug-specific electroencephalographic patterns, making it suitable for use in children. Yet, not much is known about the benefits of using density spectral array on post-operative recovery in children.
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