Part of the World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain - Pediatric Anesthesia series, this book presents evidence-based reviews on topics in paediatric anaesthesia, to provide practitioners and trainees with an up to date understanding of the subject.

Beginning with articles on anaesthesia used for different surgical procedures, the following sections discuss challenges in anaesthesia for thoracic surgery in infants and perioperative care for neonatal emergencies.

Further topics include perioperative complications of anaesthesia in children, neurotoxicity of anaesthesia on the developing brain, and ethical issues.

Each article is supplemented by editors’ comments highlighting their own personal, clinical ... Read moreexperience.

Key points

• Part of the World Clinics: Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain – Pediatric Anesthesia series
• Presents evidence-based reviews of latest advances and thinking in the field
• Each article supplemented by editors’ comments based on clinical experience