The anaesthetic management of autistic children

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 682-686

  Rainey, L ^a   Van Der Walt, J H ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia: paediatric, autism, premedication, ketamine, oral

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREMEDICATION; STRESS;

EID: 0032425177     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x9802600615     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Berry FA. General philosophy of patient preparation, premedication and induction of anaesthesia. In: FA Berry, ed. Anaesthetic Management of Difficult and Routine Paediatric Patients. 2nd Edition Churchill Livingston, New York 1990; 40-41.
2. Gilman JT, Tuchman R. Autism and associated behavioural disorders: pharmacotherapeutic intervention. Ann Pharmacother 1995; 29:47-56.
3. Tonge BJ, Dissanayake C, Brereton AV. Autism: Fifty years on from Kanner. J Paediatr Child Health 1994; 30:102-107.
4. Sigman M, Arbelle S, Dissanayake C. Current research findings on childhood autism Can J Psychiatry 1995; 40:289-294.
5. Gilberg C, Coleman M. Autism and medical disorders: A review of the literature. Dev Med Child Neurol 1996; 38: 191-202.
6. Smalley SL, McCracken J, Tanguay P. Autism, affective disorders and social phobia. Am J Med Genet 1995; 60:19-26.
7. Van der Walt JH, Sweeney DB. Sticky labels to indicate hazard for anaesthesia. Anaesthesia 1990; 45:502.
8. Meignan ML. Anaesthesia for the schizophrenic. Can J Anaesth 1992; 40:91-94.
9. Jenson RA. Autism and the use of hypnotic barbiturates in Obstetrics and Paediatrics. J Autism Dev Disord 1991; 21: 254-257.
10. Fukta O, Braham RL, Yanase H, Atsumi N, Kurosu K. The sedative effect of intranasal midazolam administration in the dental treatment of patients with mental disabilities. J Clin Pediatr Dent 1993; 17:231-237.
11. Marcus B, Steward DJ, Khan NR, et al. Outpatient transoesophageal echocardiography with intravenous propofol anaes-thesia in children and adolescents. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 1993; 6:205-209.
12. Alderson PJ, Lerman J. Oral premedication for paediatric ambulatory anaesthesia: a comparison of midazolam and ketamine. Can J Anaesth 1994; 41:221-226.
13. Parnis SJ, Foate JA,Van der Walt JH, Short T, Crowe CE. Midazolam is an effective premedication for children having day-stay anaesthesia. Anaesth Intensive Care 1992; 20:9-14.
14. Roy WL. Anaesthetising children in remote locations: necessary expeditions or anaesthetic misadventures? Can J Anaesth 1996; 43:764-768.
15. Gutstein HB, Johnson KL, Heard MB, Gregory GA. Oral ketamine preanaesthetic medication in children. Anesthesiology 1992; 76:28-33.