Anaes Vivas · Paediatric anaesthesia
Paediatric respiratory and cardiovascular physiology for the anaesthetist — viva
Structured oral examination station for paediatric-respiratory-cardiovascular-physiology.
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Prompt
Table of infant vs adult respiratory and cardiovascular relationships — oxygen consumption, ventilation relative to FRC, closing volumes, and the bradycardia response — with the crisis implications blank.
Numbers
Greater oxygen consumption with high minute ventilation relative to a small functional residual capacity, plus increased closing volumes; resting VO2 more than double adult; nasal breathers 2-6 mo.[1][3]
References4ShowHide
- [1]Garcia-Marcinkiewicz AG, Matava CT. Safe in the first attempt: teaching neonatal airway management. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol, 2022.PMID 35671020
- [2]Binkhorst M, et al. Threshold to initiate chest compressions for bradycardia at birth: A narrative review. J Perinatol, 2025.PMID 40360699
- [3]Di Cicco M, et al. Structural and functional development in airways throughout childhood: Children are not small adults. Pediatr Pulmonol, 2021.PMID 33179415
- [4]Cote CJ, et al. Postoperative apnea in former preterm infants after inguinal herniorrhaphy. A combined analysis. Anesthesiology, 1995.PMID 7717551