- Raises awareness of potential problems that could arise in the post -anesthetic period after surgeries
- Elevates vigilance, timely intervention, and prevention of these complications
- Presents various clinical cases that illustrate proactive measures for the perioperative team
This case-based book comprehensively covers the clinically significant problems that can occur in children in the immediate postoperative period after surgery after admission to Post Anesthesia Care Unit.
Chapter authors first focus on how clinical monitoring and safety of post-op patients can and must continue after hand off to the PACU team and then describe 24 interesting clinical scenarios that needed urgent intervention in PACU. The goal of this book is to teach members of the perioperative teams around the globe how to keep anesthesia stat calls to a minimum.
Anesthesia STAT! Acute Pediatric Emergencies in PACU features contributions from leaders in pediatric anesthesiology and be an indispensable guide for the perioperative and postoperative team in preventing potential problems during the post-anesthetic period.
Table of Contents- Anaphylaxis after antibiotics in PACU
- Sudden somnolence after neurosurgery in an infant
- Emergence delirium in a toddler
- Cardiac arrest after central line placement in a 10 year old
- Foreign body aspiration after EGD in a 6 year old
- Intractable cardiac arrhythmias after bone marrow biopsy in a child
- Shoulder pain and tachycardia after a routine liver biopsy in a teenager
- 17 year old athlete with NPPE after hardware removal
- Latex allergy in a child with spina bifida
- Pneumothorax in a teenager after rib cartilage removal
- Respiratory arrest in a child after T&A
- Inability to walk after caudal anesthesia in a 2 year old.
- Croupy cough and desaturation in ex-premature toddler
- Postoperative apnea after spinal anesthesia in a newborn.
- Persistent Vomiting after eye muscle surgery
- Blindness after bone marrow harvest in a previously healthy patient.
- Tachycardia and hypertension in 13 year old with goiter
- Bronchospasm in a child after Botox injection
- Oxygen desaturation in a teenager after esophagoscopy and biopsy.
- Seizures in a child after appendectomy.
- Hyperthermia in a child after dental rehabilitation
- Vomiting blood after routine T&A
