Perioperative management of low birth weight infants for open-heart surgery

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 538-553

  Williams, Glyn D ^a   Cohen, Ronald S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiopulmonary bypass; heart surgery; infants; low birth weight; prematurity

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIAZEPAM; DOPAMINE; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HALOTHANE; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; LUNG SURFACTANT; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDAZOLAM; MILRINONE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PANCURONIUM; PROPOFOL; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; ROCURONIUM; THEOPHYLLINE; TROMETAMOL; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANEMIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; BRADYCARDIA; CALORIC INTAKE; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMODILUTION; HEMOSTASIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE INJURY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG DYSPLASIA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MODIFIED ULTRAFILTRATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN APNEA; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; OXYGEN TOXICITY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESUSCITATION; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TACHYCARDIA; THERMOREGULATION; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ANESTHESIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; KIDNEY DISEASES; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79954487819     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2011.03529.x     Document Type: Review

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