Cardiac arrest in anesthetized children: recent advances and challenges for the future

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey P. Morray

• Book ID: 109032426
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 179 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1155-5645
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2010.03440.x

✦ Synopsis

Summary

Over the past 50 years the incidence of anesthesia‐related cardiac arrest has declined, despite increased patient co‐morbidities, the most significant determinant of anesthetic risk. Multiple factors have contributed to this improvement including safer anesthetic agents, better monitoring devices and the development of a specialized pediatric environment. Provider skill has benefitted from improved training and recognition of high‐risk situations. Further improvements will depend on international, multispecialty efforts to standardize terminology and analyze large numbers of these infrequent adverse events.