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Neonatal surgical emergencies pose high-risk challenges with common error traps across procedures, necessitating guidance to recognize and mitigate adverse events.
This narrative review highlights common error traps in neonatal anesthesia to help clinicians mitigate adverse events during surgical emergencies.
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Alerts clinicians to common error traps in neonatal emergencies; leaves open whether targeted strategies improve outcomes.
Neonatal surgical emergencies are challenging, often high-risk procedures for the pediatric anesthesiologist. Though each emergency presents different anesthetic challenges, several error traps exist that are common to all procedures in this patient population. These error traps include errors in surgical timing, airway management, maintenance of normothermia and normoglycemia, and recognition of pharmacologic and physiologic differences. In this narrative review, we will discuss each error trap to aid the clinician in recognizing, planning for, and mitigating adverse events.
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Morrissey et al. (2024) studied this question.
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