Paediatric anaesthesia
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Pediatric regional anesthesia continues to evolve. Education and attention to anatomical detail remain key elements to successful outcomes. New techniques, some adapted from adult practice, provide analgesia for pediatric surgical procedures such cleft palate or congenital hip dysplasia. Despite technological advances a number of controversial issues remain unresolved.
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The future of pediatric anesthesia can be thought of in terms of what will happen to the practice of anesthesia, or what will happen to the profession of pediatric anesthesia. The profession will change both under external forces, and by how pediatric anesthetists themselves decide to shape of the profession. The largest external force is likely to be cost. ⋯ New technologies will have an impact in monitoring and in the gathering and dissemination of information. Practice will also change with changes in surgery. Perhaps the biggest changes will come in areas with the greatest unknowns; neonatal anesthesia is an area with many unknowns and thus great potential for change and improvement.