[Anesthesia in pediatric urology]

It is reported on an experience of several years in 4,870 anaesthesias in the paediatric urology. Anaesthesiological peculiarities and anaesthetising techniques were critically represented, and the advantages of the induction of the anaesthesia with ketamines as well as the experiences made are described. Summarizing the following is established: 1. Among the urological patients and also in the anaesthetising techniques a fundamental change appeared. For the majority of the interventions in paediatric urology nowadays the anaesthesia is much simpler and less expensive than several years ago. 2. Inhalation anaesthesia is widely superseded by the dissociative anaesthesia with ketamine and the number of intubation anaesthesias considerably decreased. 3. During complicated and long lasting operations on newborn and infants the child is further on intubated and undergoes an assisted respiration. 4. When choosing the one or another anaesthetising method the character of the intervention in paediatric urology as such was authoritative and not the preference of the one or another anaesthetising method.