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...

Scheduled methadone reduces overall opioid requirements after pediatric posterior spinal fusion

A single center retrospective case series

Pediatric Anesthesia

Reviewed July 2023 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,...

Comparison of postoperative pain in children after maintenance anaesthesia with propofol or sevoflurane

A systematic review and meta-analysis

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Reviewed August 2024 by Dr Rory Walsh

Study Overview: This was a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13 randomised controlled trials that compared post-operative pain between sevoflurane and propofol anaesthesia in...

Optimizing pediatric tonsillectomy outcomes with an opioid sparing anesthesia protocol

Learning and continuously improving with real-world data

Pediatric Anesthesia

Reviewed 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)...