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Korean Journal of Anesthesiology 1981;14(4):377-382.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4097/kjae.1981.14.4.377   
Anesthetic Experiences of 8,600 Pediatric Patients for the Past 10 Years (1970-1979) .
Chong Soo Kim, Seong Deok Kim, Kwang Woo Kim
Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
The reason for undertaking a special study of pediatric anesthesia is that children and especially infants differ sharply from adult patients. We know the important factors are psychogenic, anatomic, pharmacologic, physiologic and pathologic differences. Although the most apparent contrast in the neonate is his size, immature enzymatic activity probably could prove a greater problem to an uninformed anesthetist. So it seems worthwhile for us to analyze our past pediatric anesthetic experiences(8,600 cases) from 1970 to 1979. The following was obtained from this clinical analysis. 1) Total number of pediatric anesthesias given has been increasing year by year, especially under the age of one year. 2) General inhalation anesthesia has shown increasing numbers, but spinal anesthesia has been decreasing in numbers. 3) Flammable agents such as cyclopropane and ether was disappeared completely from our operating theater in spite of their excellent qualities. However, balanced anesthesia with Innovar has been increase. 4) Pediatric cardiac patients among 8,600 cases have sharply increased from 0.5% in 1970 to 4.7% in 1975 and 11.6% in 1979.


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