[Anesthesiologic considerations in 83 cases of surgery of the posterior cranial fossa in children]. / Considerazioni anestesiologiche su 83 casi di chirurgia della fossa cranica posteriore operati in età pediatrica.

Our study includes a group of 83 cases operated for pathologies of posterior fossa in the years from 1967 to 1985. The patients were examined according to age, site, pathology and size of the lesions, duration of the operation, amount of removal and use of new technologies. The evaluation of all these data has given us the possibility to study the effects of drugs and anesthesiological techniques used in the different years. We have mainly considered the influence of postoperative complications on the quality of the postoperative outcome. The use of new technologies and of the anesthetic drugs recently introduced, even if it has widened the operative indications to patients with serious pathologies and in critical general conditions, has shown a considerable reduction of intraoperative and postoperative complications of the midline lesions, shortening the postoperative hospitalization and improving the outcome.