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Pediatric anesthesia in Australia and New Zealand and health inequity among First Nations and Māori children
High-flow nasal oxygen for children's airway surgery to reduce hypoxaemic events
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Exposure to Operative Anesthesia in Childhood and Subsequent Neurobehavioral Diagnoses
A Natural Experiment Using Appendectomy
Anesthesiology
Submitted November 2024 by Dr Eamonn Upperton
Overview: This retrospective study looks at the risk of developing a neurobehavioural diagnosis in two parallel groups of children aged between 3 and 15 years: - Those who underwent...
Intravenous lidocaine infusion therapy and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring in adolescents undergoing idiopathic scoliosis correction
A retrospective study
Pediatric Anesthesia
Submitted November 2024 by Dr Elizabeth Dalton
This was a single-centre retrospective study aimed at determining whether intravenous lignocaine infusion therapy during posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion (PSIF) for adolescent idiopathic...
Video versus Direct Laryngoscopy for Urgent Intubation of Newborn Infants
The New England Journal of Medicine
Submitted November 2024 by Dr Siak Lee
Study Overview: This study compares first pass intubation success using video vs. direct laryngoscopy in neonates. Methods: Single centre, randomised, prospective trial of 214 patients at a...
An observational study of gastric contents in pediatric patients with long bone fracture using gastric ultrasound
Pediatric Anesthesia
Submitted November 2024 by Dr Su May Koh
This prospective observational study involved 200 paediatric surgical patients and assessed the reliability of fasting with ultrasound (US) imaging and suction in paediatric patients presenting for...
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