Pediatric anesthesia and recent developments in asthma in children.
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease and the physiological consequence is bronchial hyperresponsiveness to different stimuli. With the worldwide increase in the prevalence of asthma, an increased number of asthmatics are likely to require anesthesia for surgical procedures. Recent investigations described the role played by different environmental agents in asthma, and clarified assessment and management strategies which can be applied to anesthesia in order to decrease the morbidity related to perioperative bronchospasm in children with asthma.
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Pediatric Anesthesia Unit, Children's Hospital, University Hospital of Geneva, 6 rue Willy Donzé, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. Walid.Habre@hcuge.ch