This systematic review of the Brazilian and worldwide literature aimed to evaluate the
incidence and causes of perioperative and anesthesia-related mortality in pediatric patients …

Sevoflurane is a safe and versatile inhalational anesthetic compared with currently available
agents. Sevoflurane is useful in adults and children for both induction and maintenance of …

Late preterm births, which occur between 34 weeks and 36 weeks 6 days, represent an
increasing proportion of prematurity-associated short-term morbidities, especially …

BACKGROUND: The initial findings from the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA)
Registry (1994–1997) revealed that medication-related causes, often cardiovascular …

Conclusions: Anesthesia-related cardiac arrest occurred most often in patients younger than
1 yr of age and in patients with severe underlying disease. Patients in the latter group, as …

Background: We undertook an audit of paediatric perioperative incidents in the first 10000
anaesthetics administered in KK Women's and Children's Hospital in Singapore between …

Background. Little information exists regarding factors influencing perioperative cardiac
arrests and their outcome. This survey evaluated the incidence, causes and outcome of …

IMPLICATIONS: Effective postoperative analgesia may reduce the incidence of emergence
agitation reported with sevoflurane anesthesia. The Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale …

We prospectively studied one hundred ASA physical status I–II children, ages six months to
six years, undergoing myringotomy surgery. Children were randomly assigned to one of four …

BACKGROUND: Respiratory complications were associated with half of pediatric
malpractice claims from the 1970s to 1980s in the ASA Closed Claims Database. Advances …