Post Operative Apnea

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Davidson AJ, Morton NS, Arnup SJ, et al. Apnea after awake regional and general anesthesia in infants: the general anesthesia compared to spinal anesthesia study--comparing apnea and neurodevelopmental outcomes, a randomized controlled trial. Anesthesiology. 2015 Jul; 123(1): 38-54. PMID: 26001033

Ozdemir T, Arikan A. Postoperative apnea after inguinal hernia repair in formerly premature infants: impacts of gestational age, postconceptual age and comorbidities. Pediatr Surg Int. 2013 Aug; 29(8): 801-804. PMID: 23780479

APSF Newsletter: Postoperative Apnea and Former Preterm Infant: Evolving Evidence for Management

Lu-Boettcher YE, Koka R, Dalal PG, Coté CJ: Postoperative Apnea and Former Preterm Infant: Evolving Evidence for Management, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, 2025

Cote CJ, Zaslavsky A, Downes JJ, Kurth CD, Welborn LG, Warner LO, Malviya SV: Postoperative apnea in former preterm infants after inguinal herniorrhaphy. A combined analysis [see comments]. Anesthesiology 1995; 82: 809–822

Kurth CD, Spitzer AR, Broennle AM, Downes JJ: Postoperative apnea in preterm infants. Anesthesiology 1987; 66: 483–488

Zhao J, Gonzalez F, Mu D: Apnea of prematurity: from cause to treatment. Eur J Pediatr 2011; 170: 1097–105

Engle WA: Age terminology during the perinatal period. Pediatrics 2004; 114: 1362–4

Eichenwald EC: Apnea of Prematurity. Pediatrics 2016; 137

Erickson G, Dobson NR, Hunt CE: Immature control of breathing and apnea of prematurity: the known and unknown. J Perinatol 2021; 41: 2111–2123

Abajian JC, Mellish RW, Browne AF, Perkins FM, Lambert DH, Mazuzan JE, Jr.: Spinal anesthesia for surgery in the high-risk infant. Anesth.Analg. 1984; 63: 359–362

Davidson AJ, Morton NS, Arnup SJ, de Graaff JC, Disma N, Withington DE, Frawley G, Hunt RW, Hardy P, Khotcholava M, von Ungern Sternberg BS, Wilton N, Tuo P, Salvo I, Ormond G, Stargatt R, Locatelli BG, McCann ME: Apnea after Awake Regional and General Anesthesia in Infants: The General Anesthesia Compared to Spinal Anesthesia Study--Comparing Apnea and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes, a Randomized Controlled Trial. Anesthesiology 2015; 123: 38–54