“Do babies get anesthesia for heart surgery?”
My baby will have heart surgery and needs anesthesia. Do babies get anesthesia for heart surgery?
6 Answers
Babies feel pain as well and they need to be still for the surgery.
Any baby or child who undergoes open heart surgery will be under anesthesia for their operation.
The answer is yes. General endo anesthesia
Yes. They are treated at hospitals that are cater for children. The anesthesiologists are specially trained to handle children.
Modern care for infant open heart surgery includes general anesthesia. 50 years ago, some anesthesiologist were concerned about giving normal doses of anesthesia. But now that infant heart surgery is frequently done, we have better ways of giving them general anesthesia and often can offer special techniques of post-operative pain relief.
YES.
