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Pediatric Neuroanesthesia — a Review of the Recent Literature. CURRENT ANESTHESIOLOGY REPORTS 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s40140-022-00540-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Purpose of Review
Pediatric neuroanesthesia is a growing and still challenging subspecialty. The purpose of this review is to summarize the available knowledge and highlight the most recent findings of the literature on non-traumatic pediatric neuroanesthesia care.
Recent Findings
Several human studies have confirmed the negative effects of early life anesthetic exposure. According to non-human studies, volatile anesthetics and opioids contribute to tumor progression. Tranexamic acid effectively reduces perioperative blood loss; it is used in several different doses without standard guidelines on optimal dosing. The widespread use of neuromonitoring has necessitated the development of anesthetic methods that do not affect neuromuscular transmission.
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Pediatric anesthetic neurotoxicity, management of intraoperative bleeding, and the effect of anesthesia on tumor growth are among the most debated and researched topics in pediatric neuroanesthesia. The lack of evidence and clinical guidelines underlines the need for further large prospective studies in this subspecialty.
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Oprea AD, Keshock MC, O'Glasser AY, Cummings KC, Edwards AF, Hunderfund AL, Urman RD, Mauck KF. Preoperative Management of Medications for Neurologic Diseases: Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement Consensus Statement. Mayo Clin Proc 2022; 97:375-396. [PMID: 35120701 DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2021.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Revised: 10/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Neurologic diseases are prevalent in patients undergoing invasive procedures; yet, no societal guidelines exist as to best practice in management of perioperative medications prescribed to treat these disorders. The Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement tasked experts in internal medicine, anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, and neurology to provide evidence-based recommendations for preoperative management of these medications. The aim of this review is not only to provide consensus recommendations for preoperative management of patients on medications for neurologic disorders, but also to serve as an educational guide to perioperative clinicians. While, in general, medications for neurologic disorders should be continued preoperatively, an individualized approach may be needed in certain situations (eg, holding anticonvulsants on day of surgery if electroencephalographic mapping is planned during epilepsy surgery). Pertinent interactions with commonly used drugs in anesthesia practice, as well as considerations for targeted laboratory testing or perioperative drug substitutions, are addressed as well.
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- Adriana D Oprea
- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
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- Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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- Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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Jaber M, Shawahna R, Abu-Issa M, Radwan F, Dweik M. Anesthesia considerations for patients with epilepsy: Findings of a qualitative study in the Palestinian practice. Epilepsy Behav 2021; 123:108278. [PMID: 34492543 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Revised: 07/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/14/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This qualitative exploratory study was conducted to explore how anesthesiologists in Palestine provide perioperative care for patients with epilepsy and how they account for the unique challenges relevant to epilepsy while planning perioperative care for patients with epilepsy. METHODS This study was conducted in an explorative qualitative design. Purposive and snowball sampling approaches were used to recruit the study participants. Qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with anesthesiologists (n = 10) and a neurologist (n = 1). The qualitative data collected in this study were thematically analyzed using the interpretive description methodology to generate themes, subthemes, and patterns. RESULTS Three major themes emerged from the collected qualitative data with a total of 18 subthemes. The 3 themes were: 1) considerations/challenges while assessing patients, 2) anesthetic considerations, and 3) recovery considerations. Lack of epilepsy-specific assessment and anesthesia protocols, underuse of neurology referral services, and lack of neuromonitoring were identified. CONCLUSION Findings of this study highlighted the need to develop specific anesthesia protocols for patients with epilepsy. Anesthesiologists and planners of perioperative care should improve collection of patient information and assessment methods, ensure control over seizures, reduce triggers of seizures, and improve patient monitoring approaches. Findings of this study might be used to inform anesthesiologists and decision makers in professional groups, patient advocacy groups, and healthcare authorities to benchmark and improve anesthesia care and services offered to patients with epilepsy. More studies are still needed to quantitatively assess the quality of anesthesia care and services provided to patients with epilepsy.
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- Mohammad Jaber
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine; An-Najah National University Hospital, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
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- Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine; An-Najah BioSciences Unit, Centre for Poisons Control, Chemical and Biological Analyses, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
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Tutiven JL, Pruden BT, Banks JS, Stevenson M, Birnbach DJ. Zika Virus: Obstetric and Pediatric Anesthesia Considerations. Anesth Analg 2017; 124:1918-1929. [PMID: 28525510 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000002047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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As of November 2016, the Florida Department of Health (FDH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed more than 4000 travel-related Zika virus (ZIKV) infections in the United States with >700 of those in Florida. There have been 139 cases of locally acquired infection, all occurring in Miami, Florida. Within the US territories (eg, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands), >30,000 cases of ZIKV infection have been reported. The projected number of individuals at risk for ZIKV infection in the Caribbean and Latin America approximates 5 million. Similar to Dengue and Chikungunya viruses, ZIKV is spread to humans by infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, through travel-associated local transmission, via sexual contact, and through blood transfusions. South Florida is an epicenter for ZIKV infection in the United States and the year-round warm climate along with an abundance of mosquito vectors that can harbor the flavivirus raise health care concerns. ZIKV infection is generally mild with clinical manifestations of fever, rash, conjunctivitis, and arthralgia. Of greatest concern, however, is growing evidence for the relationship between ZIKV infection of pregnant women and increased incidence of abnormal pregnancies and congenital abnormalities in the newborn, now medically termed ZIKA Congenital Syndrome. Federal health officials are observing 899 confirmed Zika-positive pregnancies and the FDH is currently monitoring 110 pregnant women with evidence of Zika infection. The University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital is uniquely positioned just north of downtown Miami and within the vicinity of Liberty City, Little Haiti, and Miami Beach, which are currently "hot spots" for Zika virus exposure and transmissions. As the FDH works fervently to prevent a Zika epidemic in the region, health care providers at the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital prepare for the clinical spectrum of ZIKV effects as well as the safe perioperative care of the parturients and their affected newborns. In an effort to meet anesthetic preparedness for the care of potential Zika-positive patients and perinatal management of babies born with ZIKA Congenital Syndrome, this review highlights the interim guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and also suggest anesthetic implications and recommendations. In addition, this article reviews guidance for the evaluation and anesthetic management of infants with congenital ZIKV infection. To better manage the perioperative care of affected newborns, this article also reviews the comparative anesthetic implications of babies born with related congenital malformations.
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- Jacqueline L Tutiven
- From *Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; †Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida; ‡Department of Radiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; §Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; and ‖UM-JMH Center for Patient Safety, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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Korsakova MB, Kozlova AB, Arkhipova NA, Shishkina LV, Vorob'ev AN, Sorokin VS, Masherov EL, Melikyan AG. [Comparison of electrocorticographic patterns with focal cortical dysplasia types in children with epilepsy]. ZHURNAL VOPROSY NEĬROKHIRURGII IMENI N. N. BURDENKO 2015; 79:19-27. [PMID: 26528609 DOI: 10.17116/neiro201579519-27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE the objective of the study was to determine significant differences in electrocorticographic patterns for various types of focal cortical dysplasias. MATERIAL AND METHODS 42 patients diagnosed with drug-resistant focal epilepsy were operated on at the Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in the period from 2006 to 2013. Patients who were histologically diagnosed with focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) and underwent video-electroencephalography and electrocorticography were analyzed. RESULTS The classification of epileptiform patterns proposed by Palmini in 1995 was used. The sporadic epileptiform activity pattern was predominant in electrocorticographic studies. The continued pattern was more frequent in the case of type II focal cortical dysplasias (FCDs), both combined and isolated; burst and sporadic activity patterns prevailed in combinations in the case of type III FCDs. A uniform distribution of all pattern types of the epileptiform activity was observed in type I FCDs. The data are statistically significant for groups with sporadic and continued patterns. CONCLUSION The continued epileptiform activity pattern is predominant in type II focal cortical dysplasia that corresponds to the most pronounced epileptogenesis processes of brain tissue with the presence of pathological forms of neurons. A uniform pattern distribution is observed for type I FCD. Patterns of the epileptiform activity and sporadic spike bursts are predominant in the case of type III FCDs. The sporadic activity is likely to be non-specific and almost uniformly distributed in all types of cortical dysplasias.
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- Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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- Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, Moscow, Russia
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Thudium MO, von Lehe M, Wessling C, Schoene-Bake JC, Soehle M. Safety, feasibility and complications during resective pediatric epilepsy surgery: a retrospective analysis. BMC Anesthesiol 2014; 14:71. [PMID: 25157215 PMCID: PMC4142256 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2253-14-71] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/13/2014] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background Resective epilepsy surgery is an established and effective method to reduce seizure burden in drug-resistant epilepsy. It was the objective of this study to assess intraoperative blood loss, transfusion requirements and the degree of hypothermia of pediatric epilepsy surgery in our center. Methods Patients were identified by our epilepsy surgery database, and data were collected via retrospective chart review over the past 25 years. Patients up to the age of 6 years were included, and patients with insufficient data were excluded. Results Forty-five patients with an age of 3.2 ± 1.6 (mean ± SD) years and a body weight of 17 [14; 21.5] kg (median [25%, 75% percentile]) were analysed. Duration of surgery was 3 h 49 min ± 53 min, which was accompanied by an intraoperative blood loss of 150 [90; 300] ml. This corresponded to 11.7 [5.2; 21.4] % of estimated total blood volume, ranging from 0 to 75%. A minimal haemoglobin count of 8.8 ± 1.4 g/dl was measured, which was substituted with erythrocyte concentrate (100 [0; 250] ml) in 23 patients. Body core temperature dropped from 36.0 ± 0.7°C at baseline to a minimum of 35.7 ± 0.7°C, and increased significantly (p < 0.001) thereafter to 37.1 ± 0.7°C until the end of surgery. A significant (p = 0.0003) correlation between duration of surgery and blood loss (Pearson r = 0.52) was observed. However, age, minimal body temperature or number of antiepileptic drugs seemed to have no impact on blood loss. Conclusion Resective epilepsy surgery is a safe procedure even in the pediatric population, however it is associated with significant blood loss especially during long surgical procedures.
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- Marcus O Thudium
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bochum, Knappschaftskrankenhaus, In der Schornau 23-25, 44892 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Freiburg Medical Center, Heiliggeiststraße 1, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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Goobie SM, Haas T. Bleeding management for pediatric craniotomies and craniofacial surgery. Paediatr Anaesth 2014; 24:678-89. [PMID: 24815192 DOI: 10.1111/pan.12416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Pediatric patients when undergoing craniotomies and craniofacial surgery may potentially have significant blood loss. The amount and extent will be dictated by the nature of the surgical procedure, the proximity to major blood vessels, and the age, and weight of the patient. The goals should be to maintain hemodynamic stability and oxygen carrying capacity and to prevent and treat hyperfibrinolysis and dilutional coagulopathy. Over transfusion and transfusion-related side effects should be minimized. This article will highlight the pertinent considerations for managing massive blood loss in pediatric patients undergoing craniotomies and craniofacial surgery. North American and European guidelines for intraoperative administration of fluid and blood products will be discussed.
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- Susan M Goobie
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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