Background: Surgical correction of craniosynostosis in children is associated with substantial intraoperative bleeding. Tranexamic acid (TXA) decreases intraoperative blood loss during cardiac or orthopedic surgery in children. We hypothesized that intraoperative TXA would reduce blood transfusion relative to placebo in patients pretreated with erythropoietin.

Compared to bubble humidifiers, the use of a heated-humidifier in patients with high-flow oxygen therapy is associated with a decrease of dryness symptoms mediated by increased humidity delivered to the patient.

BMB using a suprazygomatic approach seems to improve pain relief, to decrease peri-operative consumption of opioids, and to favor early feeding resumption after CP repair in infants.

In a descriptive sense, this article broaches 2 important questions that anesthesiologists confront during the informed consent process. First, how much information regarding anesthetic risks, benefits, and alternatives should one discuss during informed consent? And second, to what extent do parents (or patients) comprehend the information provided, and as a corollary, what is the optimal mode of assessing the degree of comprehension? In this study, a full 30% of parents had no specific questions before surgery, whereas another 18% thought the information provided was inadequate and desired more discussion and disclosure. Perhaps we need a better means of sorting out how the provider of information interfaces with the receiver of the same information.