Anesthesiologic management of surgery in the 1st month of life. Review of the literature and clinical contribution

: This paper reports observations on 160 patients, aged between 1 and 30 days, submitted to general anaesthesia for surgery in the period within 1/1/81 and 31/12/84, at the Pediatric Surgery Department - Vicenza Regional Hospital. First we mentioned the main anatomo-physiological features in newborns, and on the grounds of the most recent bibliography and of our own experience, we propose a general anaesthesia record, as much as possible univocal, still bearing in mind the difficulty of this piece of advice, related to the various neonatal malformations, to the very poor conditions, and sometimes to dramatic emergency. This record as come out to be as much as possible corresponding to the main physiopathological features in newborns and doesn't modify the weak balance in these young patients.