Anesthesia advances in neonatal thoracoscopic surgery

The development of thoracoscopic minimal invasive neonate surgery has brought unprecedented challenges for modern anesthesiology.Many factors including neonatal physiology, pathological changes and surgery itself, anesthetic techniques and intraoperative ventilation mode affect neonate perioperative safety and therapeutic efficacy.We analyze the reasons and solutions of complications by focusing on the perioperative hypoxemia, hypercapnia, ventilatory disorders and hypotension that may occur during artificial pneumothorax to improve the anesthetic safety of neonate minimal invasive surgery. Key words: Neonate; Thoracoscopy; Anesthesia; Hypoxemia; Hepercapnia