Pediatric Anesthesia Handbook
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: May 20, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780071586870
Subjects: Anaesthetics; Paediatric medicine; Anesthesiology; Pediatrics; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Reference; Medical / Anesthesiology; Anesthesia; Child; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Pediatric anesthesia
First sentence: Reports of anesthetic risk are fraught with conceptual and methodologic inconsistencies: definitions of mortality (intraoperative? perioperative? within 24 h? 48 h? 1 month?) and morbidity, changing practices of anesthesia (e.g., routine endotracheal intubation rather than mask anesthesia), study design (prospective vs. retrospective, case review vs. preestablished and rigorously defined criteria), and method of acquisition of information (voluntary vs. compulsory).