Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Neonates and Children (Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care)

The anesthesia and intensive care in infants and children have assumed positions of primary importance in contemporary medicine. In these delicate sectors of medicine, clinical research activities must be continually supported by interdisciplinary collaborations. Neonatal and pediatric intensive care requires that all involved physicians, including the surgeon and anesthesiologist, be willing to work together as a team. However, coordination of the various pathophysiological and clinical aspects of neonatal and pediatric critical medicine is highly complex. A complete and current review of the anaethesia and intensive care of infants and children must include discussions of morbidity rates, so as to guide the clincians in choosing the diagnostic approach, as well as of monotoring techniques appropriate to support the therapeutic decision. Recent progress in intensive care medicine for infants and children has been significant. Front Matter....Pages N2-XIV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Preoperative evaluation....Pages 3-11 Clinical approach, monitoring and decision making in paediatric intensive care....Pages 13-24 The choice of paediatric anaesthesia system....Pages 25-29 Update on inhalation anaesthesia....Pages 31-37 Choice of perioperative fluids and transfusion....Pages 39-49 Outpatient surgery in paediatric patients....Pages 51-58 Locoregional anaesthesia in paediatrics....Pages 59-64 Complications of regional analgesia in paediatric anaesthesia....Pages 65-70 Anaesthesia and postoperative care of children and neonates undergoing cardiac surgery, including transplantation....Pages 71-81 New modes of ventilation in paediatrics....Pages 83-97 Weaning from artificial ventilation....Pages 99-105 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Fetal anaesthesia for surgery....Pages 109-114 Effects of anaesthesia/analgesia techniques in mother and child....Pages 115-119 Maternal complications....Pages 121-126 Asphyxia and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in neonates: postnatal interventions....Pages 127-137 The parents in neonatal intensive care units and the kangaroo-mother method....Pages 139-143 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Models of pharmacokinetics in the treatment of acute postoperative pain in paediatrics....Pages 147-150 Techniques of continuous or intermittent analgesia....Pages 151-159 Sedation and acute pain management: association/combinations of drugs....Pages 161-173 Sedation and the paediatric patient....Pages 175-185 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Immediate postoperative considerations....Pages 187-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Update on respiratory distress syndrome....Pages 197-217 High frequency ventilation....Pages 219-225 Surfactant in respiratory distress syndrome....Pages 227-242 Liquid ventilation: recent concepts....Pages 243-251 Hemopurification in paediatric intensive care....Pages 253-266 Early diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening bacterial infections in neonates and critically ill children....Pages 267-279 Clinical severity scores in neonates....Pages 281-288 Epidemiology and management of sepsis in neonates....Pages 289-300 Back Matter....Pages 301-306