Anesthesia Risk in Pediatric Surgery

Male1: The risk of anesthesia today with things with hernias?
Male2: The answer is that anesthesia—pediatric anesthesia in the hands of a fully trained pediatric anesthesiologist is unbelievably safe. And now I qualify that by saying a pediatric anesthesiologist, in other words, there are anesthesiologists who are just general anesthesiologists who do not have much experience with children and there are differences in how to manage children in terms of their anesthesia as well in terms of the surgery. So it is very important that you make sure that your baby is having surgery in a facility where they are really capable and fully trained pediatric anesthesiologists. They say that the risk is much less than in 80,000 anesthetics. We are having some serious complications, so it is very an infinitesimal risk.


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