title: Update on anesthesia management for infants and children.
abstract: This review aims at providing the pediatric surgeon with an update on the most important issues in pediatric anesthesia and the changes that have taken place over the last few years. Many practices, entrenched in tradition, are being modified in the light of research that has provided new knowledge, drugs, and techniques. Pediatric anesthesia requires dedication, a sense of anticipation, meticulous attention to detail, and an individual who derives enormous satisfaction from the pleasure to be had from dealing with these small patients and their families.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Bloch
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods*; D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction / Q000379:methods; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation; D010092:Oximetry; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000628:therapy; D011300:Preoperative Care