Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Jul 2001
Early tracheal extubation after paediatric cardiac surgery: the use of propofol to supplement low-dose opioid anaesthesia.
After institutional approval and parental consent, 103 children, aged 6 months to 18 years, who were undergoing repair of simple and complex congenital heart lesions using cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) were studied and compared with a group of 135 children who had undergone similar surgery in our institution in the year before. ⋯ We found the propofol regimen to be satisfactory with a shorted ICU stay for these patients.