Journal of Neonatal Biology

Juan Carlos Barrera-De León

Publications

• Research Article
  Propofol for Procedural Anaesthesia During Laser Treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
  Author(s): José Alfonso Gutiérrez-Padilla, Juan Carlos Barrera-De León, Alonso Meza-Anguiano, Fernando Aguilar-Rodríguez, Pablo Castañeda-Castañeda, Daniel Pérez Rulfo-Ibarra, Daysi Karina Muñoz Ruvalcaba and L. Consuelo Zepeda-RomeroJosé Alfonso Gutiérrez-Padilla, Juan Carlos Barrera-De León, Alonso Meza-Anguiano, Fernando Aguilar-Rodríguez, Pablo Castañeda-Castañeda, Daniel Pérez Rulfo-Ibarra, Daysi Karina Muñoz Ruvalcaba and L. Consuelo Zepeda-Romero
  
  Background: Anaesthesia in preterm neonates poses certain risks due to such patients’ systemic instability and concurrent pathologies, as the procedure itself can accentuate such instability and morbidity in these patients. Anaesthesia for LASER procedures for ROP must be a safe procedure that ensures the patient’s stability during and after the procedure. The purpose of this paper is to describe the anaesthesia techniques used in the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), and evaluate their results. Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study carried out from January to December 2012, which included 79 out of 102 patients operated on during such period using laser photocoagulation for ROP under general anaesthesia with intravenous Fentanyl and Propofol administered by a Paediatric Anaesthesiologist. Results: The anaesthesia had a median duration of 75.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-0897.1000180

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