Pediatric AnesthesiaPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1111/pan.15062
Melissa Brooks Peterson, Myron Yaster, Justin L Lockman
{"title":"Editor's Picks for the Pediatric Anesthesia Article of the Day: October 2024.","authors":"Melissa Brooks Peterson, Myron Yaster, Justin L Lockman","doi":"10.1111/pan.15062","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pan.15062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19745,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Anesthesia","volume":" ","pages":"323-324"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143067078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pediatric AnesthesiaPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-02-04DOI: 10.1111/pan.15077
James D Morse, Brian J Anderson
{"title":"Pharmacokinetic and Physiological Concepts Relevant for Determining Sevoflurane Dose.","authors":"James D Morse, Brian J Anderson","doi":"10.1111/pan.15077","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pan.15077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19745,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Anesthesia","volume":" ","pages":"267-269"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143189997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pediatric AnesthesiaPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-04DOI: 10.1111/pan.15059
Kristen K Thomsen, Michael Fritz, Christian Zöllner, Till Kessler, Bernd Saugel, Leonie Schulte-Uentrop
{"title":"Transthoracic Echocardiography for Central Venous Catheter Tip Positioning in Children: An Observational Study Using Transesophageal Echocardiography as Reference Method.","authors":"Kristen K Thomsen, Michael Fritz, Christian Zöllner, Till Kessler, Bernd Saugel, Leonie Schulte-Uentrop","doi":"10.1111/pan.15059","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pan.15059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Children who need to have major surgery or are critically ill often require the insertion of a central venous catheter (CVC). To avoid serious complications, it is important to correctly position the CVC tip at the junction of the distal superior vena cava and the right atrium (cavoatrial junction). Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) can be used to confirm the correct position of the CVC tip. However, the accuracy of TTE for CVC tip positioning has mainly been investigated using chest X-ray as the reference method-although chest X-ray itself does not allow directly locating the CVC tip at the cavoatrial junction.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>We aimed to determine if TTE can help exactly position the CVC tip at the cavoatrial junction during CVC insertion in children. We specifically tested the hypothesis that TTE-guided CVC tip positioning results in a correct CVC tip position at the cavoatrial junction (confirmed by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) as the reference method) in ≥ 90% of the children.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a prospective observational study in children aged 0-14 years scheduled for elective surgery for congenital heart disease. Our primary endpoint was the proportion of children in whom TTE guidance resulted in a correct CVC tip position at the cavoatrial junction, confirmed by TEE.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>150 children were analyzed. TTE-guided CVC tip positioning resulted in a correct CVC tip position at the cavoatrial junction in 136 children (91%, 95% confidence interval: 85%-94%). The proportion of children in whom TTE guidance resulted in a correct CVC tip position at the cavoatrial junction was highest in children aged 0-3 months (96%) and lowest in children aged 13-14 years (70%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>TTE-guided CVC tip positioning resulted in a correct CVC tip position at the cavoatrial junction, confirmed by TEE, in 91% of children. Clinicians should consider using TTE to position the CVC tip at the cavoatrial junction during CVC insertion in children-particularly younger children.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>German Clinical Trial Register: DRKS00028271.</p>","PeriodicalId":19745,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Anesthesia","volume":" ","pages":"310-315"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11883508/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142927588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pediatric AnesthesiaPub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2025-01-06DOI: 10.1111/pan.15063
Claire Douglas, James D Morse, Brian J Anderson
{"title":"Mucositis Pain and Its Temporal Relationship to White Cell Count.","authors":"Claire Douglas, James D Morse, Brian J Anderson","doi":"10.1111/pan.15063","DOIUrl":"10.1111/pan.15063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Children who have received chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment resulting in neutropenia can suffer painful mucositis. We explored the relationship between pain score and white cell count in children with mucositis due to immunosuppression and assessed the influence of opioid and ketamine analgesia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Children with mucositis nursed in the pediatric oncology and hematology ward were invited to partake in this observational study following referral to the pediatric pain service for intravenous analgesia. Pain scores, white cell count, neutrophil count, and analgesia requirements were recorded daily until intravenous analgesia was either stopped or transitioned to oral analgesia. Data were analyzed using nonlinear mixed effects models that sought a relationship between white cell count and pain score using a sigmoid maximal effect (E<sub>MAX</sub>) model. The impact of analgesic use on pain score was determined. The temporal relationship between white cell count and pain score was characterized by using a delayed effect model with an equilibration half-time.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fifty children were enrolled in the study from January 2022 to December 2023. The equilibration half-time relating the rise in white cell count and pain response was 0.29 days. The initial pain score (estimated in those children already started on treatment with paracetamol and tramadol) was 6.3 (maximum pain 10). The maximum pain reduction was 59% of that initial pain score. Morphine and ketamine further reduced pain; the maximum response for opioids was 38% reduction and that for ketamine was 11%.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Pain relief from mucositis is related to an increase in white cell count after a period of severe neutropenia, where white cell count is a surrogate for neutrophil count. There is a delay in analgesic response of approximately 1 day. This analgesic response to increasing white cell count had greater dominance than analgesia achieved using either opioids or ketamine.</p>","PeriodicalId":19745,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Anesthesia","volume":" ","pages":"302-309"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11883507/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142932133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victor C L Lee, Randa Ridgway, Nicholas C West, Matthias Görges, Simon D Whyte
{"title":"Anesthetic-Sparing Effect of Dexmedetomidine During Total Intravenous Anesthesia for Children Undergoing Dental Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial-In Reply.","authors":"Victor C L Lee, Randa Ridgway, Nicholas C West, Matthias Görges, Simon D Whyte","doi":"10.1111/pan.15109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.15109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19745,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Anesthesia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143743507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anesthesia Delivery in Humanitarian Context: Lessons From the Front Line.","authors":"Rodrigo Lopez-Barreda","doi":"10.1111/pan.15108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.15108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19745,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Anesthesia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143743506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel M Vanderhoek, Sameh Nour, Shiu-Yi Emily Chen
{"title":"Anesthesia Provider and Facility Practice Patterns in Ambulatory Surgical Centers Caring for Children: A Survey of the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia.","authors":"Samuel M Vanderhoek, Sameh Nour, Shiu-Yi Emily Chen","doi":"10.1111/pan.15102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.15102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19745,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Anesthesia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143701127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giovanna Chidini, Tiziana Marchesi, Stefano Scalia Catenacci, Gaetano Florio, Giorgio Conti, Stefano Lanni, Giovanni Filocamo, Francesca Patria, Marta Guerrini, Gregorio Milani, Giacomo Grasselli
{"title":"Effects of Noninvasive Respiratory Support on Ventilation Distribution During Spontaneous Breathing Sedation in Preschool/School-Aged Children: An Electrical Impedance Tomography Study.","authors":"Giovanna Chidini, Tiziana Marchesi, Stefano Scalia Catenacci, Gaetano Florio, Giorgio Conti, Stefano Lanni, Giovanni Filocamo, Francesca Patria, Marta Guerrini, Gregorio Milani, Giacomo Grasselli","doi":"10.1111/pan.15098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/pan.15098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Procedural sedation interferes with respiratory dynamics in pediatric patients. It reduces lung compliance, causing the closing volume to exceed the functional residual capacity, which can result in airway collapse, atelectasis, and periods of silent desaturation.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>Aims of the study were to clarify the impact of intravenous propofol sedation on ventilation distribution and to evaluate the potential benefits of noninvasive respiratory support (NRS) in restoring the original ventilation distribution pattern by applying the electrical impedance tomography technology.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Single-center physiological randomized crossover study comparing two 20-min steps of NRS delivered as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and noninvasive ventilation (NIV) at different time points: (1) spontaneous breathing (SB-1); (2) spontaneous breathing during sedation (SB-2); (3) CPAP during sedation; (4) NIV during sedation; (5) spontaneous breathing after sedation discontinuation (SB-3). Primary endpoint was regional ventilation delay 40% (RVD40%). Secondary outcomes were global index (GI), end-expiratory lung impedance (EELI), and center of ventilation (CoV).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirteen children were enrolled. RVD40% increased during SB-2 compared to SB-1 (p = 0.014). NIV was effective in reducing it compared to CPAP (p = 0.009) and SB-3 (p = 0.015). NIV was also effective in restoring ventilation homogeneity and lung volume compared to SB-2 by decreasing GI (p = 0.035) and restoring EELI (p = 0.002). During NIV, the center of ventilation increased compared to SB-1 (p = 0.001), SB-2 (p = 0.004), and CPAP (p = 0.004), suggesting that ventilation was shifted toward the ventral areas of the lungs. On the other hand, CPAP was not effective in restoring RVD40, GI, and EELI to SB1 values following the induction of intravenous anesthesia with propofol at SB-2.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this specific ventilatory setting, spontaneous breathing sedation resulted in enhanced ventilation inhomogeneity and a reduction in EELI that could be reversed by NIV but not by CPAP.</p><p><strong>Clinical trials registration: </strong>The trial was registered prior to patient enrollment at Clinicaltrials.gov (NCT05495477; principal investigator: Giovanna Chidini; date of registration: August 10, 2022). Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials guidelines were followed, and the study was conducted according to the Helsinki 1964 Ethical Declaration Standard, revised in 2008.</p>","PeriodicalId":19745,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Anesthesia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}