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THIS CHAPTER REVIEWS THE equipment and strategies for cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in infants and children, focusing on how they differ compared with CPB in adults. We review the effects of CPB on the key organ systems and discuss specific management…

Providing anesthetic care for infants and children poses unique challenges because of the profound differences in physiology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anesthetic drugs, and wide variety of procedures that these patients undergo, which are often very different from the adult…