Complications of anesthesia and their prevention in children with spastic cerebral palsy during ambulatory surgery
Ershov, V.L.; Ostreĭkov, I.F.
Anesteziologiia i Reanimatologiia 1999(4): 33-35
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0201-7563 PMID: 10584365 Document Number: 506868
A total of 8000 anesthesias with ketamine or ketamine + halothane in children with infantile cerebral paralysis, operated in a one-day hospital, are analyzed. The complications were as follows: tachycardias in 12%, hypotonia in 8%, repeated vomiting in 5%, postnarcosis depression in 10%, psychomotor excitation in 9%, and painful syndrome in 7%. The most incident combination of complications was hypotonia, tachycardia, repeated vomiting, and postnarcosis depression. Complications occurred in 14.2% cases in ketamine anesthesia and in 4.3% cases in halothane + ketamine anesthesia.