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Anesthesia for Noncardiac Surgery in Children with Congenital Heart Disease

Alireza Emdadi, MD, PhD

Nassim Moradi, MD, PhD

Department of Anesthesiology, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine, Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

This review covers the classification of congenital heart diseases, and the preoperative assessment, monitoring, anesthetic considerations, and management in the pediatric population with congenital heart disease. It does not present "recipes" for individual cardiac defects. The pathophysiology is presented as it relates to principles of management, patient assessment, selection, and application of an anesthetic regimen to specific cardiac lesions and procedures. Familiarity with the child's pathophysiology, preoperative preparation, choice of monitors, induction, maintenance, emergence from anesthesia, and plans for the postoperative period should avoid major problems in anesthetic management.

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Vol. 7, No. 2, 153-165 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/108925320300700204


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