Are mortality and adverse neurologic outcomes greater in preterm male infants?
In the modern era of neonatal management, male infants still have higher mortality and poorer long-term neurologic outcome. Gender differences for mortality and long-term neurologic outcome appear to lose significance at 27 weeks gestation.
In this retrospective study, continuous volatile anaesthesia in liver resection does not provide protection of the remnant liver from IR injury compared with continuous i.v. anaesthesia.