Patient and anesthesia characteristics of children with low pre-incision blood pressure: A retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intraoperative blood pressure has been suggested as a key factor for safe pediatric anesthesia. However, there is not much insight into factors that discriminate between children with low and normal pre-incision blood pressure. Our aim was to explore whether children who have a low blood pressure during anesthesia are different than those with normal blood pressure. The focus of the present study was on the pre-incision period.

Methods

This retrospective study included pediatric patients undergoing anesthesia for non-cardiac surgery at a tertiary pediatric university hospital, between 2012 and 2016. We analyzed the association between pre-incision blood pressure and patient- and anesthesia characteristics, comparing low with normal pre-incision blood pressure. Thi

SUBMITTER: Pasma W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079014 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature