Anesthetic management of the pediatric patient undergoing solid organ transplantation.
Solid organ transplantation is now routinely performed at many institutions. Pediatric organ recipients present difficult challenges to pediatric anesthesiologists. Physiologic, anatomic, and pharmacologic derangements in this population may make both the surgical procedure and the anesthetic management complicated. This article presents an overview of the unique problems and the strategies to solve them in this population.
Uejima
Tetsu
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Department of Anesthesiology, Feinburg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60302, USA. tuejima@nwu.edu
D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D016041:Heart-Lung Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D016377:Organ Transplantation; D011300:Preoperative Care