Anesthesia in premature infants
You are a young anesthesiologist working in a children's hospital. You have been notifed that a premature newborn with gastroschisis will be transported from the delivery room to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The baby was born at 30 weeks of gestation, birth weight 1450 g, delivered by emergency cesarean section due to severe maternal preeclampsia. The Apgar score was 5–7–8. The newborn is scheduled today for an urgent surgical procedure in your operating room. Before you are called to the NICU to perform the pre-anesthetic assessment, you have time to make a plan. This gives you time to think about everything and prepare.
What needs to be considered?
