• S Bringuier, C Dadure, and F Seguret.
• Service d'anesthésie et de réanimation, hôpital Lapeyronie, CHU de Montpellier, 375, avenue du Doyen-Gaston-Giraud, 34295 Montpellier cedex 5, France. c-macq@chu-montpellier.fr
• Ann Fr Anesth Reanim. 2012 Nov 1;31(11):835-9.

IntroductionNowadays, the epidemiological data on French pediatric anesthesia is limited. The purpose of this study was to perform an "epidemiological picture" of this activity.Material And MethodFrom the national Program Information System Medicalization, we have identified the institutions of France performing more than 50 anesthesia by year in children under 15 years in 2008 and noted the demographic data, types of institutions, hospital stay and surgeries.ResultsSeven hundred and eighty-nine thousands and two hundred anesthetic procedures have performed during 648,018 hospital stays in 929 institutions. A percentage of 68.4% of children were between 3 and 15 years old, 26.7% between 1 and 3 years, 4.1% between 1 year and 1 month and 0.8% less than one month, including 62% of boys and 38% of girls. A percentage of 53.6% of hospital stays were realized in private institutions, 20.9% in University Hospitals (UH), and 20.4% in General hospitals (GH), mainly in day-case surgery (60%), 15.2% in stay of 24h and 24.8% in full hospital stay (FHS). The main surgeries were ENT (29%), digestive (21%), orthopedic (14%), urology (12%) and plastics (9%). Children less than 1 year old were managed by University Hospital and during FHS. Older children were managed in private institution and during day-case surgery.ConclusionOver 50% of stays with anesthesia were performed in private institution and during day-case surgery. Controversially, the management of children younger than 1 year was mainly in University Hospital.Copyright © 2012 Société française d’anesthésie et de réanimation (Sfar). Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

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