• Der Anaesthesist · Apr 1990

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    [Opiates in pediatric anesthesia].

    • K A Lehmann.
    • Institut für Anaesthesiologie, Universität zu Köln.
    • Anaesthesist. 1990 Apr 1; 39 (4): 195-204.

    AbstractNarcotic analgesics, although frequently used in adult patients, are at present relatively minor drugs in pediatric anesthesia. This review discusses indications, clinical applications, and side effects of opiates for pre-medication, induction and maintenance of anesthesia, and postoperative pain therapy in infants and children. Opiates do not represent the agents at first choice for preoperative anxiolysis or amnesia. With the exception of certain disease states (cardiac risk, elevated intracranial pressure, malignant hyperthermia) where intravenous anesthesia including opiates is clearly indicated, inhalational anesthetics are commonly preferred to narcotics. It has been shown, however, that opiate-supplemented general anesthesia can be used for pediatric surgery in an equally effective and safe manner. Finally, there is an essential need for more narcotic analgesics in the treatment of early postoperative pain, when antipyretic-antiphlogistic analgesics alone prove ineffective. It thus seems that in pediatric anesthesia today opiates are prescribed at the wrong time and withheld when they are most urgently needed.

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