Essentials of Anesthesia for Infants and Neonates

List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Newborn Physiology for Anesthetic Management: 1. The term infant Mary Ellen McCann; 2. The preterm infant Lauren R. Kelly Ugarte and Thomas J. Mancuso; 3. Origin of the NICU Amy Vinson; 4. Hemodynamics in the infant Viviane Nasr; 5. Measures of carbon dioxide Larry Rhien; 6. Glucose control Monica Hoagland; 7. Oxygen management Augusta Sola; 8. Temperature control Laura Downey; 9. Neonatal resuscitation Monica Kleinman; 10. Congenital abnormalities and syndromes Anne Lynn and Katherine Gentry; 11. Myopathies of the newborn Phil Morgan and Vincent Hsieh; Part II. Newborn Anesthesia: 12. Preoperative preparation Lynne Ferrari; 13. Developmental pharmacology: the neonate Cynthia Tung and Robert Holzman; 14. The newborn airway Sim Jagannathan and Shivani S. Patel; 15. Fluid and transfusion management Justin Long, Tiffany Frazee and Hubert Benzon; 16. Neonatal ventilation strategies Gerhard Wolf; 17. Anesthetic induced neurotoxicity Sulpicio Soriano and Dusica Bajic; 18. New anesthetic agents on the horizon Kai Matthes and Thomas Weissmueller; 19. Monitoring of the newborn and infant under anesthesia Michael King, Samuel Rodriguez and Kathleen Chen; Part III. Specific Newborn and Infant Procedures: 20. Anesthesia for neurosurgical procedures Roby Sebastian and Craig McClain; 21. Anesthesia for otolarygologic procedures in infants and neonates Richard Anderson, Anthony Anderson and Charles Nargozian; 22. Anesthesia for plastic surgery Petra Meier-Haran; 23. Anesthesia for abdominal wall reconstruction procedures Ellen Choi and Sam Wald; 24. Anesthesia for intraabdominal procedures Raymond Park and Edmund Cooper; 25. Anesthesia for urologic surgery Myron Yaster, Deepa Kattail and Jessica A George; 26. Anesthesia for thoracic surgery Cornelius Sullivan; 27. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia Elizabeth Eastburn and Bridget Muldowney; 28. Congenital heart disease in the neonate and infant cardiac catheterization and cardiac surgery Kirsten Odegard and Morgan Brown; 29. Non-cardiac surgery in neonates with cardiac disease Annette Schure; 30. Neonatal and infant tumors Laura Leduc; 31. Anesthesia for transplant surgery Evan Burke and Franklyn Cladis; 32. Anesthesia for interventional radiology procedures Mary Landrigan-Ossar; 33. Anesthesia for conjoined twins Lynne Maxwell and Phil Bailey; 34. Anesthesia for fetal surgery Linda Bulich, Arielle Mizrahi and Kha Tran; Part IV. Pain Management and other Newborn Anaesthesia Concerns: 35. Pain management in neonates Christine Greco and Charles Berde; 36. Regional anesthesia in neonates and infants Karen Boretsky; 37. Procedural sedation Mary Ellen McCann and Christine Greco; 38. Ambulatory anesthesia in infants Sharon Redd and Ethan Sanford; 39. Apnea and bradycardia Sam Rodriguez; 40. Neonatal outcomes Joseph Cravero; 41. Research on newborns and infants Patcharee Sriswasdi; Index.