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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 33, 227-230, Copyright © 1986 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Spinal Anaesthesia for Minor Paediatric Surgery

G. A. BLAISE MD FRCPC1 and W. L. ROY MD FRCPC1

1 Department of Anaesthesia, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Address correspondence to: Dr. W.L. Roy, Department of Anaesthesia, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8.

Our recent experience using spinal anaesthesia for paediatric surgical procedures is reviewed. In 1984, 30 patients aged seven weeks to 13 years were anaesthetised in this manner. Lumbar puncture failed in four of 34 patients, 12 required sedation during the operative course and 11 required light general anaesthesia to complete these procedures. Tetracaine one per cent or bupivicaine 0.75 per cent were the drugs used. During the procedure and depending on their age, the patients were either sedated or were distracted with the use of Disney cartoons played on a video cassette recorder. There were no significant intraoperative or postoperative complications.

Key Words: ANAESTHESIA: paediatric • ANAESTHETIC TECHNIQUES, REGIONAL: spinal • ANAESTHETICS LOCAL: bupivacaine, tetracaine






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