• J Clin Anesth · Nov 2016

    Comparative Study

    Cardiovascular magnetic resonance is successfully feasible in many patients aged 3 to 8years without general anesthesia or sedation.

    • Ahmed Kharabish, Naira Mkrtchyan, Christian Meierhofer, Stefan Martinoff, Peter Ewert, Heiko Stern, and Sohrab Fratz.
    • Department of Radiology, Cairo University Hospitals, 11256, Cairo, Egypt. Electronic address: Ahmedkharabish@hotmail.com.
    • J Clin Anesth. 2016 Nov 1; 34: 11-4.

    ObjectivesPatients younger than 8 years are usually examined by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) under general anesthesia (GA) or sedation without intubation. Therefore, we sought to study the feasibility of CMR in patients aged 3 to 8years without GA or sedation.PatientsData sets of 71 consecutive patients aged 3 to 8years were studied retrospectively.DesignThe total cohort was divided into 2 groups: a no-GA or sedation without intubation group (no-GA or sedation) and a GA or sedation without intubation group (GA or sedation).MeasurementsThe patients' age, scan durations for each group, successfully answered clinical question, and number of sequences per study were compared between both groups.Main ResultsScan duration in the no-GA or sedation group (n=44) was 35± 20minutes, and that in the GA or sedation group (n=27) was 60± 31minutes (P<.001). The percentage of successful reports was 95% (42/44) in the no-GA or sedation group and 89% (24 of 27) in the GA or sedation group (P=.29).ConclusionCMR in patients aged 3 to 8years is usually successfully feasible without GA or sedation.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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