Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Neonates and Children

Perioperative Management.- 1 — Preoperative evaluation.- 2 — Clinical approach, monitoring and decision making in paediatric intensive care.- 3 — The choice of paediatric anaesthesia system.- 4 — Update on inhalation anaesthesia.- 5 — Choice of perioperative fluids and transfusion.- 6 — Outpatient surgery in paediatric patients.- 7 — Locoregional anaesthesia in paediatrics.- 8 — Complications of regional analgesia in paediatric anaesthesia.- 9 — Anaesthesia and postoperative care of children and neonates undergoing cardiac surgery, including transplantation.- 10 — New modes of ventilation in paediatrics.- 11 — Weaning from artificial ventilation.- Mother and Child.- 12 — Fetal anaesthesia for surgery.- 13 — Effects of anaesthesia/analgesia techniques in mother and child.- 14 — Maternal complications.- 15 — Asphyxia and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in neonates: postnatal interventions.- 16 — The parents in neonatal intensive care units and the kangaroo-mother method.- Perioperative Sedation and Analgesia.- 17 — Models of pharmacokinetics in the treatment of acute postoperative pain in paediatrics.- 18 — Techniques of continuous or intermittent analgesia.- 19 — Sedation and acute pain management: association/combinations of drugs.- 20 — Sedation and the paediatric patient.- 21 — Immediate postoperative considerations.- Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).- 22 — Update on respiratory distress syndrome.- 23 — High frequency ventilation.- 24 — Surfactant in respiratory distress syndrome.- 25 — Liquid ventilation: recent concepts.- 26 — Hemopurification in paediatric intensive care.- 27 — Early diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening bacterial infections in neonates and critically ill children.- 28 — Clinicalseverity scores in neonates.- 29 — Epidemiology and management of sepsis in neonates.- Main symbols.