World Clinics Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain: Pediatric Anesthesia-II

Part of the World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain - Pediatric Anesthesia series, this book presents evidence-based reviews on topics in paediatric anaesthesia, to provide practitioners and trainees with an up to date understanding of the subject.

Beginning with articles on anaesthesia used for different surgical procedures, the following sections discuss challenges in anaesthesia for thoracic surgery in infants and perioperative care for neonatal emergencies.

Further topics include perioperative complications of anaesthesia in children, neurotoxicity of anaesthesia on the developing brain, and ethical issues.

Each article is supplemented by editors’ comments highlighting their own personal, clinical experience.

Key points

• Part of the World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain – Pediatric Anesthesia series
• Presents evidence-based reviews of latest advances and thinking in the field
• Each article supplemented by editors’ comments based on clinical experience

Dwarkadas K Baheti MD
Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Pain Physician, Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Guest Editors
Snehalata H Dhayagude DA FRCA
Consultant Paediatric Anaesthesiologist, Bombay Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Maharashtra, India

Jayant K Deshpande MD MPH
Director, Jonathan Bates Centre for Improving Children’s Health; Associate Medical Director, Arkansas Children’s Hospital; Professor of Paediatrics & Anaesthesiology, UAMS, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Ramesh Menon MD
Department of Anaesthesia, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand