Abstract:General anesthesia is well tolerated by pediatric patients undergoing CI, even under 1 year of age. Significant perioperative complications are primarily respiratory, are usually free of long-term sequelae, and occur with an incidence similar to other reported age groups.
“…These included postoperative wheezing/stridor (5), laryngospasm (3), and emesis (1). Only one of these complications occurred in a patient less than 12 months of age . Anesthesia‐related complications are not specifically collected in NSQIP‐P, but two respiratory complications were evaluated, namely unplanned postoperative intubation and pneumonia.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Only one of these complications occurred in a patient less than 12 months of age. 11 Anesthesia-related complications are not specifically collected in NSQIP-P, but two respiratory complications were evaluated, namely unplanned postoperative intubation and pneumonia. There were no instances of unplanned intubation in our study, but one patient who was 2 years of age developed pneumonia within 5 days of surgery.…”
“…These included postoperative wheezing/stridor (5), laryngospasm (3), and emesis (1). Only one of these complications occurred in a patient less than 12 months of age . Anesthesia‐related complications are not specifically collected in NSQIP‐P, but two respiratory complications were evaluated, namely unplanned postoperative intubation and pneumonia.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Only one of these complications occurred in a patient less than 12 months of age. 11 Anesthesia-related complications are not specifically collected in NSQIP-P, but two respiratory complications were evaluated, namely unplanned postoperative intubation and pneumonia. There were no instances of unplanned intubation in our study, but one patient who was 2 years of age developed pneumonia within 5 days of surgery.…”
“…Yeh et al . reported on anesthetic complications in 123 pediatric cochlear implants with an overall anesthetic complication rate of 6.5%. These included five cases of postoperative wheeze or stridor, three of laryngospasm, and one of regurgitation of gastric contents during an inhalational induction of anesthesia.…”
Anesthesia for cochlear implants in children can be safely carried out in a district general hospital setting. Appropriate safeguards should be in place to refer complex cases which may require PICU to a tertiary pediatric center.
“…cholesteatoma surgery, cochlear implantation). 6.5% of intra-/postoperative complications (n=123) were reported for cochlear implantations in patients <18 years (mainly respiratory problems like stridor/laryngospasm) [35]. In case of delayed awakening after skull base surgery, intracranial complications and accumulation of anaesthetics (e.g.…”
Section: General Intraoperative Aspects Of Ear Surgerymentioning
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