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3418299 
Journal Article 
Environmental tobacco smoke: A risk factor for pediatric laryngospasm 
Lakshmipathy, N; Bokesch, PM; Cowan, DE; Lisman, SR; Schmid, CH 
1996 
Yes 
Anesthesia and Analgesia
ISSN: 0003-2999
EISSN: 1526-7598 
82 
4 
724-727 
English 
WOS:A1996UC48200008 
BIOSIS COPYRIGHT: BIOL ABS. Adult patients who smoke are known to have airway complications during general anesthesia. The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure in the home and laryngospasm during general anesthesia in pediatric patients. A retrospective, cohort study was performed on pediatric ambulatory patients in the day surgery center and main operating room of a university hospital. We studied 310 consecutive pediatric patients (all ASA physical status I) who underwent an outpatient elective ear, nose, and throat or urologic surgical procedure in the spring and summer of 1994, and received inhalation induction by mask with halothane. Laryngospasm was identified from quality management and anesthetic records, and included only those patients whose records indicated that succinylcholine was given because of oxygen desaturation and inability to ventilate. Patients' families were questioned within 1 wk after surgery as to the n