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...

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...