Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Dec 2020
Implementation of a Spinal Anesthesia and Sedation Protocol that Reliably Prolongs Infant Spinal Anesthesia: Case Series of 102 Infants who received Spinal Anesthesia for Urologic Surgery.
The use of spinal anesthesia in infants is seeing resurgence as an alternative to general anesthesia. ⋯ We describe the successful implementation of an infant spinal anesthesia and sedation protocol and a technique that uniquely provides prolonged surgical anesthesia with a low failure rate. We also report shorter anesthesia time, surgical time, and recovery room length of stay in patients who received spinal anesthesia compared to general anesthesia.