Main description:

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.

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