Children are at increased risk of perioperative respiratory and cardiovascular complications
because of their unique respiratory and cardiovascular physiology compared to adults.
Anaesthesia can exaggerate respiratory deterioration in young children because of their
inability to control respiration and inherent susceptibility to rapid desaturation, airway
obstruction, early respiratory fatigue and lung atelectasis. Premature infants (less than 60
weeks of postconceptional age) can be exposed to the danger of prolonged apnoea and …