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Postoperative jaundice in children
Author(s) -
WARK H. J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1983.tb13983.x
Subject(s) - medicine , halothane , jaundice , hepatitis , sick child , anesthesia , surgery , pediatrics , general surgery
Summary At the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, during the 23‐year period 1957 to 1979, 165400 anaesthetics were administered. Almost all of the patients anaesthetised during this time would have been exposed to halothane. Seventy‐four patients became jaundiced for the first time in the postoperative period. Halothane‐associated hepatitis was excluded as the cause of the postoperative jaundice in all but two of the 74 patients. In these two patients in whom the diagnosis of halothane‐associated hepatitis was possible the hepatitic illness was mild and both patients made an uneventful recovery. In this survey the risk of a patient becoming jaundiced due to halothane associated hepatitis was greater than I in 82000. It would seem that in children halothane can be used whenever it is warranted and can be used repeatedly.