Premedication in children: what if it fails?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.aimjournal.cz/artkey/aim-202501-0009_premedication-in-children-what-if-it-fails.php" target="_blank" >https://www.aimjournal.cz/artkey/aim-202501-0009_premedication-in-children-what-if-it-fails.php</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.36290/aim.2025.003" target="_blank" >10.36290/aim.2025.003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Premedication in children: what if it fails?

Original language description

At least 60% to 70% of paediatric patients experience anxiety before surgery. Preoperative anxiety in children is associated with adverse clinical (emergence delirium and increased analgesic requirements) and behavioural outcomes (sleep disturbances and enuresis). In addition, some children remain anxious for up to 14 days after surgery. Maladaptive behavioural changes, such as general anxiety, night crying, apathy, and temper tantrums, may last even longer. Severe preoperative anxiety activates the stress response, resulting in significantly elevated cortisol levels and susceptibility to postoperative infections. The aim of this short communication is to present crisis intervention techniques used by fire service crisis interventionists when working with children at the scene of tragic events. These techniques can also be effective in the operating theatre to calm the paediatric patient and gain cooperation for induction of general anaesthesia. However, the effectiveness of these interventions in anaesthesia has not yet been evaluated in clinical trials, and the information presented here is based solely on the authors’ personal experience.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30223 - Anaesthesiology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Anesteziologie a intenzivní medicína

ISSN

1214-2158

e-ISSN

1805-4412

Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

52-54

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105007201977