Pediatric anesthesia & critical care
Surgical and Anesthesia-Related Concerns forRobot-Assisted Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Authors' conclusion
Robot-assisted cardiac surgery is well tolerated in appropriately selected pediatric patients, including children as small as 24 kg.
Study context
- Population
- Children undergoing robot-assisted cardiac surgery (atrial septal defect or mitral valve regurgitation with Marfan syndrome), academic tertiary care centre, 2022–2024
- Participants
- 9 children
- Outcome
- Perioperative course
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Operative time, mean (SD), minutes
- 388.2 (40.7)
- Fibrillation time, mean (SD), minutes
- 92.4 (25.8)
- CPB time, mean (SD), minutes
- 192.1 (31.3)
- OLV required
- 0
- Extubated in the OR
- 77.8%
- ICU LOS, median (IQR), hours
- 45 (26)
- Hospital stay, median (IQR), days
- 3 (2.5)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Patient characteristics
- Age, mean (SD), years
- 13.1 (2.5)
- Weight, mean (SD), kg
- 48.5 (20.3)
- BMI, mean (SD), kg/m²
- 21.7 (5.4)
Complications and mortality
- Conversion to median sternotomy (aortic insufficiency, Marfan syndrome, aortic root dilation)
- 1
- Reoperation for bleeding after emesis in the ICU
- 1
- Mortality
- 0
Original publication
Surgical and Anesthesia-Related Concerns forRobot-Assisted Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. Published 7 November 2025. doi:10.
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