CHAPTER 7Nutritional Support and Total Parenteral Nutrition Rohit R. Gupta and Roopa Kohli‐Seth Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA OVERALL BOTTOM LINE Critically ill patients…
CHAPTER 9Prevention of Complications Anthony R. Manasia and Nidhi Kavi Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA OVERALL BOTTOM LINE ICU‐related complications can increase morbidity, mortality,…
CHAPTER 2Sedation and Analgesia Colin J. Sheehan and Michael Kitz Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA OVERALL BOTTOM LINE Analgesia and sedation are primarily indicated…
Because critically ill children may occasionally present for emergency surgery, all anesthesiologists should have a working knowledge of the most common critical illnesses and their therapies. In this chapter, we…
With approximately 15,000 deaths per year, trauma is the leading cause of death in children over 1 year of age in the United States. Anesthesiologists and anesthetists in nearly every…
Pain is considered chronic when it is constant or recurrent and lasts for more than 3 months. It may persist because of ongoing tissue inflammation, as seen in children with…
Insufficient knowledge about the pharmacology of analgesic medications in the pediatric age group has led to inadequate treatment of pediatric pain partly related to the fluctuating pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics properties…
“Acute pain” in the pediatric setting is generally nociceptive pain arising from tissue injury, inflammation, or infection. It is typically most pronounced immediately after the insult and gradually improves as…
Local anesthetics are synthetic derivatives of cocaine, a plant alkaloid obtained from the leaves of the South American coca plant, and the first local anesthetic to be discovered. Cocaine is…
The next several chapters are dedicated to teaching trainees about pediatric pain and the various options for pain management in children. In this first of five chapters, we introduce the…
