Prevalence of Bradycardia After Induction of General Anesthesia and Associated Factors Among Surgical Pediatric Patients. A Prospective Observational Study.
Tajera Tageza IlalaGudeta Teku AyanoMinda Abebe SeifeMengistu Yinges KebedeBelete Alemu GeletaKidanemariam Tamrat YilmaPublished in: Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics (2023)
The prevalence of bradycardia after induction of general anesthesia was 19.5%. Preoperative risk of hypoxia, opioids premedication, inhalational induction (particularly with halothane), difficult intubation, intraoperative complications such as hypoxia, and significant blood loss were significantly associated with bradycardia.