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Perioperative pulmonary aspiration is infrequent and low risk in pediatric anesthetic practice
Author(s) -
Kelly Christopher J.,
Walker Robert W. M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1111/pan.12549
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary aspiration , perioperative , anesthetic , intensive care medicine , foreign body aspiration , general surgery , surgery , bronchoscopy
Summary Recent studies have reported perioperative pulmonary aspiration in pediatric practice to be an uncommon problem associated with low morbidity and mortality. This paper examines the recent publications in both the adult and pediatric literature and looks at some of the potential risk factors involved, both patient and anesthetic, in the development of aspiration of gastric contents. We also look at the risk of severe morbidity following pulmonary aspiration and speculate on possible reasons behind the assertion that pulmonary aspiration in pediatric anesthetic practice is rare and a low‐risk event.