Paediatric anaesthesia
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Oct 2021
Observational StudyOperations and outcomes of a Hospital-wide Emergency Airway Response Team (HEART) in a quaternary academic children's hospital.
To improve pediatric airway management outside of the operating room, a Hospital-wide Emergency Airway Response Team (HEART) program composed of anesthesiology, otorhinolaryngology, and respiratory therapy clinicians was developed. ⋯ A multidisciplinary emergency airway response team plays an important role in pediatric airway management outside of the operating room. Adverse airway outcomes were more frequent before compared to after HEART arrival.
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Paediatric anaesthesia · Oct 2021
Observational StudyBehavioral changes after hospital discharge in preschool children experiencing emergence delirium after general anesthesia: a prospective observational study.
Emergence delirium is well known as early postoperative behavioral change after general anesthesia. However, it is unclear whether children with emergence delirium have negative behavioral changes after hospital discharge. ⋯ Children with emergence delirium developed more severe behavior changes 1 week after surgery than those without emergence delirium. High preoperative anxiety level and emergence delirium scores were associated with posthospital behavioral changes.