Pediatric Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain: Standardization in Clinical Practice (Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain in Neonates and Children)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current standards of anesthesia and intensive care in neonates and children, with a view to promoting standardization in clinical practice. The first part of the book, devoted to issues in intensive care, opens by considering scoring systems for the assessment of sick children. The diagnosis, prevention, and management of ventilator-associated pneumonia are then discussed, and the roles of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation and noninvasive respiratory support are reviewed. Further chapters address procedural sedation and analgesia in children, the progress toward ‘open’ ICUs with liberal visiting policies, and advances in long-term home mechanical ventilation. In the second part of the book, a range of important topics in anesthesia and perioperative medicine are discussed. After a review of safety issues, current trends in pediatric regional and locoregional anesthesia are described and a synopsis is provided on current knowledge regarding the use of central blocks in infants and children. Subsequent chapters are devoted to awareness monitoring, single-lung ventilation techniques, anesthesia in the context of severe prematurity, and emergence delirium. __Pediatric Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain: Standardization in Clinical Practice__ will be an extremely useful source of information for both novices and more experienced practitioners in the field. Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Scoring Systems to Assess Severity of Illness in Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine....Pages 3-12 Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Children....Pages 13-26 High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in Intensive Care Units: Children and Neonates....Pages 27-35 Noninvasive Respiratory Support in Pediatrics....Pages 37-45 Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Children....Pages 47-59 The “Open” Intensive Care Unit: the Challenge Continues....Pages 61-70 Long-Term Home Ventilation in Children: Advances and Perspectives....Pages 71-91 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine....Pages 95-103 Anesthesia and Perioperative Safety in Children: Standards of Care and Quality Control....Pages 105-112 Current Trends in Pediatric Regional Anesthesia....Pages 113-118 Locoregional Anesthesia in Children....Pages 119-129 Drugs and Clinical Pharmacology of Central Blocks in Infants and Children....Pages 131-144 Awareness Monitoring in Children....Pages 145-156 Single-Lung Ventilation in Children: Techniques, Monitoring, and Side Effects....Pages 157-163 Anesthesia Management in Severe Prematurity....Pages 165-181 Emergence Delirium: Assessment, Prevention, and Decision-Making....Pages 183-196 Back Matter....Pages 197-199