Abstract:Total venous anesthesia (AVT) has shown a great advance in the last two decades in both adults and children, after the development of anesthetics with pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties that allow its use in continuous infusion. Despite the rapid evolution of AVT and target controlled anesthesia for maintenance of general anesthesia in adults, its practice in the pediatric population was initially limited. The advantages of AVT are rapid recovery time, significant reduction of nausea and vomiting, … Show more
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