Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Jul 2015
The impact of obesity on pediatric procedural sedation-related outcomes: results from the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium.
To evaluate the impact of obesity on adverse events and required interventions during pediatric procedural sedation. ⋯ Obesity is an independent risk factor for adverse respiratory events during procedural sedation and is associated with an increased frequency of airway interventions, suggesting that additional vigilance and expertise are required when sedating these patients.
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Jul 2015
Biography Historical ArticleHerbert Rackow and Ernest Salanitre: the emergence of pediatric anesthesia as a specialty in the United States.
Herbert Rackow and Ernest Salanitre were pediatric anesthesiologists at Babies Hospital at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York whose work spanned three decades beginning in the early 1950s. Their pioneering research included studies of the uptake and elimination of inhalational anesthetics and of the risk of cardiac arrest in infants and children. ⋯ In 1990, they were jointly awarded the Robert M. Smith award by the Section on Anesthesiology of the American Academy of Pediatrics.