title: [Regional anesthesia in preterm, newborns and small infants].
abstract: Regional anesthesia has many advantages as intraoperative and more important as postoperative analgesia in pediatric anesthesia. There are special requirements for a sufficient acute pain management in preterms, newborns and small infants. This review focuses these special features regarding to local anesthetics and supplements, caudal and spinal anesthesia, and peripheral blockades.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie des Universitätsklinikums Leipzig im Mutter-Kind-Zentrum, Germany. Claudia.Hoehne@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Höhne
mesh_terms: D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards*; D047928:Premature Birth