Anesthesia-Related Cardiac Arrest in Children: Update from the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest Registry

M. Bhananker, Sanjay; Ramamoorthy, Chandra; M. Geiduschek, Jeremy; L. Posner, Karen; B. Domino, Karen; M. Haberkern, Charles; Campos, John; P. Morray, Jeffrey

doi:10.1213/01.ane.0000268712.00756.dd

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Anesthesia-Related Cardiac Arrest in Children: Update from the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest Registry

Published in Anesthesia & Analgesia • Jul 17, 2007

Authors:

Sanjay M. Bhananker

Chandra Ramamoorthy

Jeremy M. Geiduschek

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The initial findings from the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry (1994-1997) revealed that medication-related causes, often cardiovascular depression from halothane, were the most common. Changes in pediatric anesthesia practice may have altered the causes of cardiac ...

Subject

Medicine

Perioperative

Laryngospasm

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