Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Sep 2021
Trimmed Central Venous Catheters in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Does Height or Weight Correlate with the Amount Trimmed?
Due to excess catheter length, pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery frequently have the tip of the central venous catheter trimmed while on bypass to obtain optimal catheter positioning. ⋯ Right internal jugular 8 cm central venous catheters are trimmed during pediatric cardiac surgery, and there is minimal correlation between the length removed and the patient height or weight. Due to the difficulty in estimating the proper length of a central venous catheter in smaller pediatric patients, placing an 8 cm long catheter in these patients and then trimming the distal tip while on bypass may be the most accurate way to properly position a catheter.
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Sep 2021
Safety and efficacy evaluation of the automatic stepwise recruitment manoeuvre in the neonatal population: An in-vivo interventional study.
A new software has recently been incorporated in almost all new anesthesia machines to enable automatic lung recruitment maneuvers. To date, no studies have assessed the safety and efficacy of these automatic software programs in the neonatal population. ⋯ The automatic stepwise recruitment maneuver software of the FLOW-i 4.3 Anesthesia System® is safe and efficacious in a healthy neonatal model. We did not observe any adverse respiratory or hemodynamic events during the implementation of the lung recruitment maneuver in the pressure-controlled ventilation mode using a stepwise increasing PEEP (30/15 cmH2 O) approach.