Pediatric Anaesthesia

Description

Pediatric anesthesia involves more than simply adjusting drug doses and equipment for smaller patients. Neonates (0-1 months), infants (1-12 months), toddlers (12-24 months), and young children (2-12 years of age) have differing anesthetic requirements. Safe anesthetic management depends on a full appreciation of the physiological, anatomic, and pharmacological characteristics of each group. Indeed infants are at much greater risk of anesthetic morbidity and mortality than older children; risk is generally inversely proportional to age. In addition, pediatric patients are prone to illnesses that require unique surgical and anesthetic strategies. The preoperative management of anesthesia in children differs from that in adults. These differences include employing cognitive and age-appropriate language, understanding the dynamics of the patient’s family, and assessing a patient's developmental stage, and we owe it. We at HOPE Hospital are determined to provide a safe environment for the surgery of infants and children. We being a Pediatric Superspeciality center strongly believe that children are not miniature adults. We provide state-of-the-art, evidence-based clinical care to patients and families in all aspects of anesthesia, perioperative medicine, critical care, and pain management. Our goals are to provide the highest quality of health and well-being of the children and families in our local community and around the world. Our multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurse anesthetists, nurses, and other clinicians is focused solely on the care of children and adolescents. We tailor the equipment and protocols we use to patients' unique needs and physiology, maximizing safety while minimizing discomfort as much as possible. Our team continually re-examines the standard methods of clinical care and works to develop better, more reliable practices for protecting a child's heart, lung, and brain function, and blood circulation during anesthesia and medical care.

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