Population
Pediatric surgical population undergoing anesthesia in a tertiary teaching hospital between 1996 and 2004
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
perioperative
Authors
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Supports targeted vigilance in neonates, infants, and emergency cases; leaves open whether interventions reduce arrest rates.
Perioperative cardiac arrest in children is strongly associated with severe underlying disease, emergency surgery, and age under 1 year, with anesthesia-related arrests primarily driven by airway and medication events.
Braz et al. (2006) studied this question.
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