Spinal anaesthesia in the neonate

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 337-351

  Frawley, Geoff ^a,b,c   Ingelmo, Pablo ^d,e  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d AO San Gerardo ^*  (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Local apnoea infants; Premature; Spinal anaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT; ADRENALIN; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CAFFEINE; CLONIDINE; DESFLURANE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; FENTANYL; GLUCOSE; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEPIVACAINE; METHYLXANTHINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NEOSTIGMINE; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; ROPIVACAINE; SEVOFLURANE; SUCROSE; TETRACAINE; THEOPHYLLINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; APNEA; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BREAST MILK; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CONTINUOUS SPINAL ANESTHESIA; DECISION MAKING; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG INDICATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; GOLD STANDARD; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HERNIA; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HERNIORRHAPHY; HERNIOTOMY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; HYPERBARISM; INFANT; INGUINAL HERNIA; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEEDLE; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROSURGERY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MONITORING; NEWBORN SURGERY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PAIN; PATIENT POSITIONING; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RISK REDUCTION; SEDATION; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UROLOGIC SURGERY; WAKEFULNESS; BODY POSTURE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN DISEASE; REVIEW;

ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; APNEA; HERNIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFANT, PREMATURE; POSTURE;

EID: 79952108461     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: 1532169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2010.02.018     Document Type: Article

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