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Retrospective Cohort Study of Perioperative Complications in Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Children Testing SARS-CoV-2-Positive Within 21 Days Before Surgery
CoV-2-Positive Within 21 Days Before Surgery
Pediatric Anesthesia
July 2025 by Dr Liam O'Doherty
This is a single centre, retrospective cohort study of 523 paediatric patients who tested positive to COVID 19 within 21 days prior to surgery. Data was acquired via chart review. The primary outcome...
International multiinstitutional external validation of preoperative risk scores for 30 day in hospital mortality in paediatric patients
British Journal of Anaesthesia
March 2025 by Dr Andrew Hughes
This is an external validation study of two patient-specific paediatric preoperative risk scores for 30-day in-hospital mortality The Pediatric Risk Assessment (PRAm) score and the intrinsic...
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)...
Efficacy of an expanded preoperative survey during perioperative care to identify illicit substance use in teenagers and adolescents
Pediatric Anesthesia
December 2023 by Dr Su May Koh
Illicit substance use is increasing in the teenage and adolescent population and relying on parental history alone is unlikely to be reliable. Illicit substance use and abuse not only has...
The usefulness of a nasopharyngeal multiplex polymerase chain reaction system to screen pediatric patients with preoperative fever
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
September 2023 by Dr Neil Hauser
Summary: This single-center retrospective observational study investigated the utility of a PCR respiratory panel (PCR FilmArray Respiratory Panel 2.1, Biomeriuex) to determine whether surgery should...
Perioperative management of the child with asthma
British Journal of Anaesthesia Education
September 2022 by Dr Heather Patterson
This educational review outlines the pathophysiology of asthma, key aspects of preoperative evaluation of children with asthma, and provides updates in asthma treatment from multinational guidelines,...
