Anesthesia for Urologic Surgery

Abstract

In most instances, the perioperative anesthetic management plan for pediatric genitourinary patients depends more on the patient ’ s age, on the site and emergent nature of surgery, and on the need for perioperative analgesia and sedation than it does on the underlying disease or the specifics of the surgical procedure. In fact, regardless of the underlying condition, almost all genitourinary surgical procedures have recurring anesthetic concerns, including presence or absence of associated anomalies, airway management, blood loss and fl uid replacement, positioning, conservation of body temperature, and postoperative pain and sedation management