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Is It Worth It?

Arch Dermatol. 2005;141:629-630.

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Surgical procedures performed on infants and children pose significant challenges not seen in adults. The needs of caretakers and the needs of children must be adequately addressed to assure satisfactory surgical outcomes. To perform surgical procedures on children, one should have a basic understanding of child development, be able to choose appropriate methods of anesthesia, and perform surgery in a location that is acceptable to both the child and parent. For many dermatologists, these are daunting tasks, which often force the busy clinician to pose the question, "Is it worth it?"

In this issue of the ARCHIVES, Cunningham and colleagues¹ report their experience with general anesthesia for 881 dermatologic procedures performed on infants and children. They found that 90% of their patients had no clinically significant complications, and there were no deaths or life-threatening events. They concluded that the use of general anesthesia, when performed in a hospital . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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James G. H. Dinulos, MD; Joseph P. Cravero, MD

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