Why the study?
Do children experience clinically significant oxygen desaturation in the postoperative period after surgery associated with moderate to severe pain?
Population
69 children undergoing surgery usually associated with moderate to severe postoperative pain, treated with…
Comparison
Overnight postoperative oxygen saturation… vs Overnight preoperative oxygen saturation…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
overnight
Authors
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No clinically meaningful desaturation seen in this small pediatric cohort; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Do children experience clinically significant oxygen desaturation in the postoperative period after surgery associated with moderate to severe pain?
Unlike some adult populations, children undergoing surgery with moderate to severe pain and opioid treatment do not appear to experience multiple episodes of clinically significant oxygen desaturation postoperatively.
Tyler et al. (1995) studied this question.
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