Clinical Study

Anesthesia for Pediatric Deep Brain Stimulation

Table 3

Intraoperative complications. Intraoperative complications are shown. For all the 28 cases, the only intraoperative complication was a venous air embolism in one patient.

Intraoperative complicationAll cases

Airway difficulty0 (28)
Respiratory depression0 (28)
Desaturation/hypoxemia0 (28)
Bradycardia0 (28)
Agitation0 (28)
Conversion to gen. anesthesia0 (28)
Seizures0 (28)
Venous Air embolism1 (28)