Transient abdominal wall deformity in an infant Blaming the caudal?

Summary Locoregional anesthesia is an important aspect of perioperative analgesia. It decreases requirements for anesthetic agents and opioids, decreases the surgical stress response, and provides postoperative analgesia. Nonetheless, pediatric patients, especially infants, demonstrate specificities...

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Published inPediatric anesthesia Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 638 - 640
Main Authors Tosetti, Sylvain, Frigon, Chantal, Polaner, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published France Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.06.2014
Subjects
Abdomen
Abdominal Wall - abnormalities
Abnormalities, Drug-Induced - pathology
adverse events
Anesthesia, Caudal - adverse effects
Anesthetics, Local - adverse effects
Bodybuilding
complications
Hirschsprung Disease - surgery
Humans
Infant
local anesthetics
Male
Postoperative Complications - pathology
quality improvement
regional
local anesthetics
adverse events
complications
infant
regional
quality improvement
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Summary:Summary Locoregional anesthesia is an important aspect of perioperative analgesia. It decreases requirements for anesthetic agents and opioids, decreases the surgical stress response, and provides postoperative analgesia. Nonetheless, pediatric patients, especially infants, demonstrate specificities towards regional anesthesia techniques, as an increased sensitivity to local anesthetics (LA) and a higher ease of LA spread especially when using blocks that rely on the volume of LA and its spread as those used for abdominal wall analgesia or caudal. Thus, we present a case of transient abdominal wall deformity following caudal anesthesia in an infant.
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ISSN:1155-5645
1460-9592
DOI:10.1111/pan.12389