Perioperative management of the child with asthma

British Journal of Anaesthesia Education

Reviewed July 2023 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,...

The usefulness of a nasopharyngeal multiplex polymerase chain reaction system to screen pediatric patients with preoperative fever

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Reviewed 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...

Efficacy of an expanded preoperative survey during perioperative care to identify illicit substance use in teenagers and adolescents

Pediatric Anesthesia

Reviewed 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...

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)...

International multiinstitutional external validation of preoperative risk scores for 30 day in hospital mortality in paediatric patients

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Reviewed March 2025 by Dr Andrew Hughes

Overview This is an external validation study of two patient-specific paediatric preoperative risk scores for 30-day in-hospital mortality --- Methods The Pediatric Risk Assessment (PRAm)...