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The standards for routine monitoring are the same for both the pediatric and adult anesthesia patients. Due to extremes of age and body mass, the application of the anesthesia provider’s sense of sight, hearing, and touch is at least as important as the basic electronic monitors associated with anesthetic care. This chapter will focus upon the practical limitations of current monitoring systems, especially as concerns premature and newborn surgical patients, and will address methods to improve accuracy, mitigate variability, and discuss specific surgical situations that may warrant more advanced and/or invasive monitors.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, 2200 Children’s Way, Suite 3116, Nashville, TN, 37232-9070, USA

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Romanelli, T.M. (2014). Pediatric Monitoring. In: Ehrenfeld, J., Cannesson, M. (eds) Monitoring Technologies in Acute Care Environments. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8557-5_41

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