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Paediatric anaesthesia
Also known as Paediatric anaesthesia · Neonatal anaesthesia · Paediatric airway · Emergence delirium children · SS_PA specialised study unit
Exam-pass paediatric anaesthesia hub (SS_PA): airway sizing formulae, induction choices, fluids/glucose, emergence delirium, sick-child pointers, laryngospasm ladder, GAS 2- and 5-year neurodevelopment, and NAP7 neonatal risk — with leaf links.
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A four-week-old ex-preterm neonate presents for inguinal hernia repair. The list is short, the baby is small, and the apnoea clock starts the moment you take control of the airway. NAP7 says this is the highest-risk age group for perioperative cardiac arrest — which means the most experienced anaesthetist present does this case, not the most junior.[3]
The framework the examiner wants is not a textbook chapter but a hub map: physiology that links to action, a crisis bank that kills children in minutes, and the discipline to prioritise airway and oxygenation before everything else. Every leaf topic below owns one crisis; the hub gives you the spine and the trial names.[1]
You have read the opening of this topic. The complete unit — every section and its primary-source references — is part of the Anaesthesia fellowship atlas.
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- [1]Davidson AJ, Disma N, de Graaff JC, et al. Neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years of age after general anaesthesia and awake-regional anaesthesia in infancy (GAS): an international multicentre, randomised controlled trial Lancet, 2016.PMID 26507180
- [2]McCann ME, de Graaff JC, Dorris L, et al. Neurodevelopmental outcome at 5 years of age after general anaesthesia or awake-regional anaesthesia in infancy (GAS): an international, multicentre, randomised, controlled equivalence trial Lancet, 2019.PMID 30782342
- [3]Cook TM, Armstrong RA, Oglesby F NAP7: high mortality risk in neonates and very low risk in children Br J Anaesth, 2025.PMID 39645515
- [4]Haidar L, Abadi F, Sarieddine T, et al. EEG-Guided Anesthesia for the Prevention of Emergence Delirium in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis JAMA Pediatr, 2026.PMID 41627803
- [5]Raphael CK, El Bcherawi N, Atallah F, et al. Sugammadex for reversing neuromuscular blockade in infants and children Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2025.PMID 41257414