[The child with a known metabolic disease: anaesthetic management].
The anaesthetic management of a child with a known metabolic disease is always a challenge. It should be a multidisciplinary process based upon the experience of all medical specialists involved and on a thorough review of the information available in the literature and in specialized up to date websites. The authors propose a list of questions to be addressed when dealing with such a case and provide two clinical examples.
Scholtes
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Service d'anesthésiologie, cliniques universitaires St-Luc, avenue Hippocrate 10-1821, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgique.
Veyckemans
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D000758:Anesthesia / Q000009:adverse effects; D002648:Child; D005645:Fucosidosis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008659:Metabolic Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D056693:Propionic Acidemia / Q000150:complications