Core Topics in Paediatric Anaesthesia

James Ip is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist working in Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in London. Grant Stuart is a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist working in Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in London. Isabeau Walker worked as a Consultant Anaesthetist in Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in London from 1997–2019. Ian James is a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist and Intensivist working in Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in London.

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Anatomical and physiological issues affecting anaesthesia in neonates and young children Pratheeban Nambyiah; 2. Pharmacological issues affecting anaesthesia in neonates and young children Eleanor Walker; 3. Developmental psychology and communicating with children and families Jo Wray; 4. The law and paediatric anaesthesia: consent, refusal, restraint and research Hugo Wellesley; 5. Safeguarding children and its implications for the anaesthetist Pascale du Pré; 6. Paediatric anaesthesia in non-specialist centres Samantha Black and Louise MacKenzie; 7. Preoperative assessment for paediatric anaesthesia, considerations for common medical conditions and risk Pamela Cupples; 8. Congenital and inherited disorders affecting anaesthesia in children Nargis Ahmad; 9. Day-case anaesthesia in children Jonathan Groome and Christie Locke; 10. General principles of safe anaesthesia in children Emma Stockton and David de Beer; 11. Equipment and monitoring in paediatric anaesthesia Ravi Shihurkar and Philippa Evans; 12. Vascular access in children David Chisolm and Gema Munoz-Mozas; 13. Perioperative fluid management in children Elena Fernandez; 14. Total intravenous anaesthesia in children Vaithianadan Mani, Alistair Baxter and Jon McCormack; 15. Regional anaesthesia in children Naveen Raj and Steve Roberts; 16. Sedation for procedures in children Grant Stuart; 17. Perioperative analgesia in children Glyn Williams and Helen Laycock; 18. Neonatal anaesthesia Joy Dawes; 19. The premature and ex-premature infant Joy Dawes; 20. Anaesthesia for general paediatric surgery Alice Miskovic and Usman Ali; 21. Anaesthesia for otolaryngology in children Reema Nandi; 22. The compromised paediatric airway Nadine Dobby; 23. Anaesthesia for cleft lip and palate surgery in children Ravi Shihurkar, Agnes Watson, Philip Cunnington; 24. Anaesthesia for dental and maxillofacial surgery in children Jamuna Navaratnarajah; 25. Anaesthesia for craniofacial surgery in children David de Beer; 26. Anaesthesia for neurosurgery in children Amaki Sogbodjor and Su Mallory; 27. Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery in children Ian James and Hannah Lewis; 28. Anaesthesia for plastic surgery in children Michael Frost; 29. Anaesthesia for orthopaedic and scoliosis surgery in children Ben Clevenger and Marina George; 30. Anaesthesia for thoracic surgery in children Valentine Woodham and James Ip; 31. Anaesthesia for cardiac surgery in children Lucy Hepburn and Kyrie Wheeler; 32. Anaesthesia for cardiac catheterisation and other investigative procedures in children Marc Cohen and Graham Derrick; 33. Anaesthesia for children with cardiac disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery Ellen Rawlinson; 34. Anaesthesia for urological surgery in children Alice Miskovic and Usman Ali; 35. Anaesthesia for hepatobiliary surgery, including transplantation in children James Bennett, Peter Bromley; 36. Anaesthesia for radiology and interventional radiology in children Jane Herod; 37. Anaesthesia for oncology and other medical procedures in children Ioannis Ioannou; 38. Principles of paediatric resuscitation Sophie Skellett; 39. Trauma in children Hannah Lewis, Naomi Edmonds and Breda O'Neill; 40. Burns in children Bruce Emerson and Joseph Hussey; 41. Principles of paediatric intensive care Mae Johnson and James Diviney; 42. Stabilisation and transport of the critically ill child Daniel Lutman; Index.