Main principles of pediatric anesthesiology

Course curriculum

• 1.Features of anatomy and physiology in children and their applied significance for the anesthesiologist-resuscitator
• • Periods of childhood, anthropometry
• • Airways. The respiratory system
• • Cardiovascular system
• • Central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, head and neck region
• • Kidneys, water balance
• • Blood system
• • Gastrointestinal tract, liver, metabolism
• • Thermoregulation. Pain. Features of pharmacokinetics
• 2.Preoperative preparation. Working with an anxious child
• • General provisions, conversation with parents, history taking
• • Examination, concomitant problems
• • Assessment of anesthetic risk
• • The anxious child
• • Premedication
• • Prevention of nausea and vomiting
• 3.Equipment for working with children, clinical and instrumental monitoring, peripheral vascular access
• • Equipment for airway management
• • Breathing circuits, filters
• • Features of mechanical ventilation
• • Catheters, defibrillators, arterial blood pressure
• • Monitoring
• • Vascular access
• 4.Sedation and anesthesia outside the operating room
• • What is “anesthesia outside the operating room”?
• • Levels of sedation
• • Anesthesia during endoscopic interventions
• • Anesthesia during imaging studies
• • Radiation safety
• • Other procedures requiring anesthesia
• • Criteria for patient transfer after anesthesia
• 5. Acute pain management
• • Physiology of pain
• • Pain assessment
• • Basic principles of therapy
• • Transformation of acute pain into chronic pain