Alotaibi Wadha M
Department of Anesthesia, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Med J. 2008 Dec;29(12):1723-5.
To present the safety and efficacy of epidural blockade in children.
A respective review was carried out at the King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from April to December 2007. The patient age, type of surgery, epidural level block, technique, local anesthetic dose, and quality of epidural block were analyzed.
Thirty-eight epidural blockades in children with a mean age of 3 years +/- 7 months were performed under general anesthesia for different procedures. All patients had minimal, or no intravenous narcotic and exhibited hemodynamic stability. There were no intraoperative or postoperative complications.
Epidural anesthesia in children is safe and effective intraoperatively, as well as, for postoperative pain control.
阐述小儿硬膜外阻滞的安全性和有效性。
2007年4月至12月在沙特阿拉伯利雅得的哈立德国王大学医院（KKUH）进行了一项回顾性研究。分析了患者年龄、手术类型、硬膜外阻滞平面、技术、局部麻醉药剂量以及硬膜外阻滞质量。
在全身麻醉下，对不同手术的小儿进行了38次硬膜外阻滞，平均年龄为3岁±7个月。所有患者静脉使用的麻醉药极少或未使用，血流动力学稳定。无术中或术后并发症。
小儿硬膜外麻醉在术中以及术后疼痛控制方面是安全有效的。
