Paediatric anaesthesia & critical care
A Pilot and Feasibility Study of a Four‐Stage Neurological Staging Framework in Pediatric Tracheal Extubation During Anesthesia Emergence
Authors' conclusion
While stage assignment was possible among captured cases, the predefined data capture targets were not met.
Study context
- Population
- Children younger than 7 years undergoing GA, tracheal extubation during emergencecompleted protocol
- Participants
- 89 participants
- Exposure
- Respiratory adverse events across four neuroanatomical emergence stages
- Outcome
- Feasibility metrics (protocol completion, recruitment flow, data completeness) and successful assignment of emergence stages
Methodological detailsprospective, descriptive, exploratory
- Prospective
- Descriptive
- Exploratory
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Feasibility metrics and stage assignment
- Patients screened
- 174
- Completed the protocol
- 89
- Consent rate (153 patients provided consent)
- 91.6%
- Overall data capture rate (89/153)
- 58.2%
- Worksheet processing rate, adjusted for protocol-ineligible cases (112/153)
- 73.2%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Safety
Respiratory adverse events by emergence stage · exploratory descriptive analysis
- Respiratory adverse events by emergence stage — Respiratory adverse events, overall
- 16.9%
Original publication
A Pilot and Feasibility Study of a Four‐Stage Neurological Staging Framework in Pediatric Tracheal Extubation During Anesthesia Emergence. Paediatr Anaesth. Published 22 July 2026. doi:10.
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