Total intravenous anesthesia and spontaneous respiration for airway endoscopy in children - a prospective evaluation

• Published in: Pediatric anesthesia Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 434 - 438
• Main Authors: MALHERBE, STEPHAN, WHYTE, SIMON, SINGH, PERMENDRA, AMARI, ERICA, KING, ASHLEE, MARK ANSERMINO, J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2010
• Subjects: airway endoscopy; Anesthesia, Intravenous - adverse effects; Anesthetics, Intravenous - adverse effects; Blood Pressure; Bronchoscopy; Carbon Dioxide - blood; Child; Child, Preschool; Electrocardiography; Electroencephalography - drug effects; Feasibility Studies; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Oxygen - blood; Piperidines - adverse effects; propofol; Propofol - adverse effects; Prospective Studies; remifentanil; Respiratory Mechanics - physiology; Respiratory System - surgery; spontaneous respiration; total intravenous anesthesia; transcutaneous carbon dioxide

Summary Introduction:  Inhalational anesthesia with spontaneous respiration is traditionally used to facilitate airway endoscopy in children. The potential difficulties in maintaining adequate depth of anesthesia using inhalational anesthesia and the anesthetic pollution of the surgical environment...