ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2023
Emergence from General Anaesthesia: Can We Discriminate between Emergence Delirium and Postoperative Pain?
Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy of dexmedetomidine in preventing emergence agitation in children undergoing tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy: a meta-analysis and systematic review.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Pooled it
- Seeking a viable perioperative preemptive analgesia regimen: a prospective, randomized, controlled, double-blind superiority study of intravenous acetaminophen in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Trial
- 40-Hz Light Stimulation and Emergence Delirium Incidence After Sevoflurane Anesthesia in Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA pediatrics · 2025Trial
- Can intraoperative electroencephalogram finally prevent emergence delirium in children?Translational pediatrics · 2026Article
- Force Metrics During the Boyle-Davis Gag in Children Undergoing Adenotonsillectomy.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Hydromorphone reduced the incidence of emergence agitation after adenotonsillectomy in children with obstructive sleep apnea: A randomized, double-blind study.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2025Article
- A randomised controlled trial to compare the occurrence of postoperative nausea and vomiting in early versus conventional feeding in children undergoing daycare surgery under general anaesthesia.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2024Article
- Ciprofol in Children Undergoing Adenoidectomy and Adenotonsillectomy: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Drug design, development and therapy · 2024Article
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Abstract
Unsettled behaviors characterize the early phase after general anaesthesia in the pediatric population in up to 80% of cases. Emergence delirium (ED) and acute pain are the two most relevant sources of this phenomenon. Research and clinical guidelines are difficult to implement due to the variability of the definition of unsettled behavior and measurement of the different components. The most probable incidence of ED is between 10% and 20%, and the potential risk factors could be summarized as young age, male gender, preoperative anxiety, baseline sleep-disordered breathing, volatile anaesthesia and ENT or ophthalmologic surgery. Self-reporting behavioral and observational scales are unable to reliably differentiate between ED and pain in a child who is not fully awake, making correct treatment choices difficult. This may lead to an undertreatment of pain in agitated children or to the overuse of opioids for self-limiting ED. This paper considers the current knowledge on the identification and treatment of ED and pain and provides a pragmatic approach for daily practice.
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