Pediatric anesthesia & critical care
Inhalation anesthesia without any intravenous management for pediatric proton beam therapy
Authors' conclusion
Inhalation anesthesia without any intravenous management for pediatric proton therapy is, in our experience, an effective technique with a complication rate similar to other anesthetic approaches.
Study context
- Population
- Children undergoing proton beam therapy under anesthesia, June 2020–August 2021873 sessions
- Participants
- 31 children
- Outcome
- Anesthesia induction time and anesthesia recovery time
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Mean anesthesia induction time
SD = 0.7 4.1 min (95% CI [3.9, 4.4])
Mean anesthesia recovery time
SD = 4.1 13.8 min (95% CI [12.3, 15.3])
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Published studies on anesthesia for pediatric proton therapy (literature review)
- Papers addressing anesthetic management, of 1082 found, all using intravenous or combined intravenous and inhalation anesthesia
- 11
Safety
Non-serious adverse effects
- Percentage of non-serious adverse effects
- 0.7% (Clopper-Pearson 95% CI [0.3, 1.5])
Serious adverse effects
- Percentage of serious adverse effects
- 0.1% (Clopper-Pearson 95% CI [0, 0.6])
- No statistically significant difference vs other published works with different anesthetic approaches
Original publication
Inhalation anesthesia without any intravenous management for pediatric proton beam therapy. Paediatr Anaesth. Published 1 August 2023. doi:10.
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