Volatile Anesthesia for the pediatric brain: friend or foe?
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The story of volatile anesthetics being “friendly” for the brain originated many years ago with the observation that anesthetized patients seemed to experience minimal or no neurologic injury after cardiac arrest. In the ensuing years, animal cerebral ischemia models were studied to evaluate volatile anesthesia neuroprotection. (1) Although cardiac arrest rarely occurs in pediatric anesthesia, cerebral ischemia does occur during cardiac and cerebrovascular surgery, and the role of volatile anesthesia for these procedures should be clarified in light of recent data.
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