Key result
This review provides an updated overview of perioperative anaesthetic management for paediatric patients with congenital heart disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
This review outlines the perioperative anaesthetic management and special considerations for paediatric patients with congenital heart disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
May guide anaesthetic planning for paediatric CHD non-cardiac surgery; leaves open need for prospective validation in specific lesions.
The objective of this article is to provide an updated and comprehensive review on current perioperative anaesthetic management of paediatric patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) coming for non-cardiac surgery. Search of terms such as "anaesthetic management," "congenital heart disease" and "non-cardiac surgery" was carried out in KKH eLibrary, PubMed, Medline and Google, focussing on significant current randomised control trials, case reports, review articles and editorials. Issues on how to tailor perioperative anaesthetic management on cases with left to right shunt, right to left shunt and complex heart disease are discussed in this article. Furthermore, the author also highlights special considerations such as pulmonary hypertension, neonates with CHD coming for extracardiac surgery and the role of regional anaesthesia in children with CHD undergoing non-cardiac operation.
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JagdishMenghraj Shahani (2012) conducted a review in Congenital heart disease in children undergoing non-cardiac surgery. Perioperative anaesthetic management was evaluated. This review provides an updated overview of perioperative anaesthetic management for paediatric patients with congenital heart disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery.
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