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Principles of anaesthesia for term neonates
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
Reviewed June 2023 by Dr Oh Ryong (Ryan) Kwen
This paper appears to be a review article and several articles were referenced to support the authors’ statements. However, no clear description was provided to explain the search methods or...
Special considerations in the premature and ex-premature infant
Premature infant
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
Reviewed July 2023 by Dr Oh Ryong (Ryan) Kwen
This is a review article that highlights the physiological and pathological consequences of prematurity in various systems, as well as their subsequent implications in the provision of anaesthesia....
Cardiac disease in neonates
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
Reviewed July 2023 by Dr Oh Ryong (Ryan) Kwen
This paper is a review article that provides basic description of the normal neonatal cardiovascular physiology as well as several congenital cardiac abnormalities and their presentations. It is very...
Anaesthesia for surgery in infancy
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
Reviewed July 2023 by Dr Oh Ryong (Ryan) Kwen
This is a review article that provides a basic understanding of common surgical conditions encountered in neonates and infants. The description of the surgical procedure and perioperative anaesthetic...
Acute pain management in the neonate
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
Reviewed July 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...

Applied forces with direct versus indirect laryngoscopy in neonatal intubation
A randomized crossover mannequin study
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia
Reviewed August 2023 by Dr Caroline Mann
This is a single centre randomized crossover trial comparing applied oropharyngeal forces of tracheal intubation of direct laryngoscopy versus video laryngoscopy in a neonatal manikin. Manikin...
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