Awake Combined Spinal Caudal Anesthesia for Longer-Duration Urologic Surgery in Infants: A Case Series-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Awake Combined Spinal Caudal Anesthesia for Longer-Duration Urologic Surgery in Infants: A Case Series

Published:2024-06 Issue:6 Volume:18 Page:e01792
ISSN:2575-3126
Container-title:A&A Practice
language:en
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Author:

Bean Christopher D.¹²,Low Sarah A.¹²,Novak Alexis B.¹²,Chen Andrew L.¹²,Elder Jack S.¹²,Liu Chang A.¹²

Affiliation:

1. From the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

Awake combined spinal caudal anesthesia has been used as an anesthetic technique for longer-duration infraumbilical surgeries in infants. Literature on the safety and feasibility of this technique is limited. We share our experience with 27 infants undergoing longer-duration urologic surgery using awake combined spinal and caudal anesthesia without the use of systemic sedatives or inhalational agents. We describe our technique, safety considerations, and details surrounding the optimal timing of caudal catheter activation for prolongation of surgical anesthesia.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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