• Paediatric anaesthesia · Nov 2003

    Review

    Anaesthetic and perioperative management of paediatric organ recipients in nontransplant surgery.

    • Georgia Kostopanagiotou, Vassilios Smyrniotis, Nikolaos Arkadopoulos, John Contis, George Briassoulis, and Elias Kostopanagiotou.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology 2nd Department of Surgery, "Aretaieion" Hospital, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece. narkado@otenet.gr
    • Paediatr Anaesth. 2003 Nov 1; 13 (9): 754-63.

    AbstractThe number and success rate of paediatric organ transplantation continue to improve yearly, and the number of transplanted children presenting for either elective or emergency nontransplant surgery is expected to increase accordingly. The general considerations related to any transplant recipient are the physiological and pharmacological problems of allograft denervation, the side effects of immunosuppression, the risk of infection, and the potential for rejection. Preoperative assessment of transplant recipients undergoing non-transplant surgery should focus on graft function, the risk of infection, and function of other organs. Local, regional, or general anaesthesia can be safely delivered to transplant recipients. Specific anaesthetic considerations related to the type of transplantation, have an impact directly on anaesthetic and perioperative management. Since anaesthetists and surgeons in hospitals who are not involved in transplantations, may be required to manage paediatric transplant recipients, the reviews of the existing experience in this field will be valuable tools in their hands.

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