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Caudal Anesthesia in Infants

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637.

Abstract

This report summarizes experience with caudal anesthesia in 70 infants ranging in age from 4 to 110 weeks, selected at random from among infants undergoing routine surgical procedures. In 50 infants, lidocaine 1.5% and in 20 infants, mepivacaine 1.5%, was used. In 35 cases, the dosage of the drug to be administered was calculated on the basis of an empirical formula and in the other 35, the dose was based on body weight. The author concludes that infants can tolerate some local anesthetic agents in even higher proportional doses than adults.

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Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999