[Respiratory maintenance of plastic maxillofacial surgeries in children]

Eighty nine children with the cleft lip and cleft palate underwent 95 surgical interventions under ketamine anesthesia. During 51.6% of interventions traditional AVL and during 48.4% of interventions high frequency AVL were used. It was demonstrated that central hemodynamics, systolic time intervals and metabolic parameters were similar in the case of traditional and high frequency AVL; however high frequency AVL proved more efficient in preventing complications during cleft lip and cleft palate surgery.