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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Intrathecal versus Caudal Morphine-Bupivacaine on Postoperative Analgesia and Cortisol Levels in Pediatric Patients
Bupivacaine on Postoperative Analgesia and Cortisol Levels in Pediatric Patients
Anesthesia Analgesia
September 2025 by Dr Stephanie Pauling
This study compared the analgesic outcomes of caudal morphine and bupivacaine with intrathecal morphine and bupivacaine in patients aged 1-5 having general, urological and orthopaedic surgery below...
Is the Compassion of Anesthesiologists Associated With Postoperative Pain and Patient Experience? A Prospective Cohort Study
Anesthesia Analgesia
September 2025 by Dr Andrew O’Donoghue
This study, published in Anaesthesia & Analgesia (2025), investigates the role of anaesthesiologist compassion in shaping postoperative outcomes among patients undergoing same-day surgery. The...
Prolonged opioid use after surgery in children, adolescents, and young adults
A systematic review
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia
July 2025 by Dr Maximiliane Beck
Persistent use of opioids after surgery remains a significant concern in the paediatric population and has been the subject of debate, particularly in North America. In Australia, between 2013 and...
Optimizing pediatric tonsillectomy outcomes with an opioid sparing anesthesia protocol
Learning and continuously improving with real-world data
Pediatric Anesthesia
March 2025 by Dr David Kinchington
This paper is a perspective piece primarily providing insight into how one ambulatory surgical centre utilised quality improvement processes supported by new generation artificial intelligence (AI)...
Comparison of postoperative pain in children after maintenance anaesthesia with propofol or sevoflurane
A systematic review and meta-analysis
British Journal of Anaesthesia
This was a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13 randomised controlled trials that compared post-operative pain between sevoflurane and propofol anaesthesia in children. The primary outcome was...
Scheduled methadone reduces overall opioid requirements after pediatric posterior spinal fusion
A single center retrospective case series
Pediatric Anesthesia
September 2022 by Dr Bojana Stepanovic
What? - A retrospective chart review of 94 patients undergoing posterior spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis between 2015 and 2020 at the American Family Children’s Hospital,...
Acute pain management in the neonate
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
January 2023 by Dr David Sainsbury
This is an educational article discussing the management of mainly post-surgical pain in neonates from a group of authors based at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in the UK. It has sections on...
