Pediatric Intraoperative Electromyographic Responses at the Adductor Pollicis and Flexor Hallucis Brevis Muscles
A Prospective, Comparative Analysis
Anesthesia Analgesia
Reviewed August 2024 by Dr Aileen Fenelon
Summary This prospective comparative analysis study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of recording cAMP’s (compound muscle action potentials) from the lower extremity and compared paired responses...
Evaluation of quality of care in neonatal anesthesia using a bundle of intraoperative parameters
Pediatric Anesthesia
Reviewed December 2023 by Dr Eamonn Upperton
Inspired by the SAFETOTS ‘10Ns’ of quality in paediatric anaesthesia, this paper sets out to measure how often physiological variables stray outside the target range during and after neonatal...
A prospective comparison of invasive and non-invasive blood pressure in children undergoing cardiac catheterization
Invasive blood pressure in children undergoing cardiac catheterization
Pediatric Anesthesia
Reviewed December 2023 by Dr Su May Koh
This was a multicentre prospective observational study of 254 children aged under 16 undergoing cardiac catheterisation where paired non-invasive and invasive blood pressure measurements were...
2023 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for Monitoring and Antagonism of Neuromuscular Blockade
A Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Neuromuscular Blockade
Anesthesiology
Reviewed January 2023 by Dr Don Hannah
This update focuses primarily on the method and site of neuromuscular monitoring and the process of antagonising neuromuscular blockade to reduce residual neuromuscular blockade. Methods Delineation...
Peri-operative management of neuromuscular blockade
A guideline from the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
European Journal of Anaesthesiology
Reviewed January 2023 by Dr Don Hannah
Methods A group was appointed to develop guidelines on the peri-operative management of neuromuscular blockade. Clinical queries were developed in the form of three...
Needle-free pharmacological sedation techniques in paediatric patients for imaging procedures
A systematic review and meta-analysis
British Journal of Anaesthesia
Reviewed January 2023 by Dr Renee Burton
The authors present extensive review of the current literature relating to providing sedation “needle free” for MRI. The study includes a wide variety of different techniques of providing sedation in...
