PMID- 32872032 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200910 LR - 20221005 IS - 1536-5964 (Electronic) IS - 0025-7974 (Print) IS - 0025-7974 (Linking) VI - 99 IP - 33 DP - 2020 Aug 14 TI - Long-term neurodevelopment outcomes of regional vs general anesthesia for infants undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. PG - e21669 LID - 10.1097/MD.0000000000021669 [doi] LID - e21669 AB - BACKGROUND: Whether regional anesthesia (RA) offers better long-term neurodevelopment outcomes compared to general anesthesia (GA) to infants undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy is still under heated debate. The aim of this meta-analysis is to compare the long-term neurodevelopment impact of RA with GA on infants undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy. METHODS: A systematic search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, clinicaltrials.gov and controlledtrials.com will be performed. Published eligible randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-RCTs (including abstracts) through May 20, 2020 with language limit of English will be enrolled in the meta-analysis. Two reviewers will independently conduct the procedures of study selection, data extraction, methodological quality assessment, and risk of bias assessment. The primary outcome is long-term neurodevelopmental state (at 2- and 5-year follow-up) as reflected in the Bayley and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) scales of infants development following surgeries. The secondary outcomes consist of satisfactory intraoperative infants immobility, duration of surgery, any anesthetic failure, the supplement of postoperative analgesia, postoperative apnea, and postoperative bradycardia. The pooled weighted mean differences (WMDs) or odds ratios (ORs) of each outcome measurement and relative 95% confident intervals (CIs) will be calculated. EndNote X8 (Clarivate Analytics) software will be applied to manage all citations. The Cochrane Review Manager version 5.3 software (RevMan 5.3) will be employed for statistical analysis. DISCUSSION: This study will summarize scientific and practical evidence and provide evidence-based individualized decision-making guidance on anesthesia regimen for inguinal herniorrhaphy in infants. REGISTRATION: This protocol was registered with the International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (INPLASY) on 17 June 2020 (registration number INPLASY202060064). FAU - Yuan, Tao AU - Yuan T AD - Department of Anesthesiology. AD - Translational Neuroscience Center, Laboratory of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine. FAU - Yang, Wenming AU - Yang W AD - Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery. FAU - Yang, Lei AU - Yang L AD - Department of Anesthesiology. AD - Translational Neuroscience Center, Laboratory of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine. FAU - Liu, Xueting AU - Liu X AD - Department of Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. FAU - Yang, Lie AU - Yang L AD - Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery. FAU - Li, Yu AU - Li Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9277-1827 AD - Department of Anesthesiology. AD - Translational Neuroscience Center, Laboratory of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Medicine (Baltimore) JT - Medicine JID - 2985248R SB - IM MH - Anesthesia, Conduction/*adverse effects MH - Anesthesia, General/*adverse effects MH - Child Development MH - Child, Preschool MH - Cognition/*drug effects MH - Hernia, Inguinal/surgery MH - Herniorrhaphy/*methods MH - Humans MH - Infant MH - Infant, Newborn MH - Meta-Analysis as Topic MH - Systematic Reviews as Topic PMC - PMC7437770 COIS- The authors report no conflicts of interest. EDAT- 2020/09/03 06:00 MHDA- 2020/09/12 06:00 PMCR- 2020/08/14 CRDT- 2020/09/03 06:00 PHST- 2020/09/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/09/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/09/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/08/14 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 00005792-202008140-00066 [pii] AID - MD-D-20-06343 [pii] AID - 10.1097/MD.0000000000021669 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Aug 14;99(33):e21669. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000021669.