The anesthesia and intensive care in infants and children have assumed
positions of primary importance in contemporary medicine. In these
delicate sectors of medicine, clinical research activities must be
continually supported by interdisciplinary collaborations. Neonatal and
pediatric intensive care requires that all involved physicians,
including the surgeon and anesthesiologist, be willing to work together
as a team. However, coordination of the various pathophysiological and
clinical aspects of neonatal and pediatric critical medicine is highly
complex. A complete and current review of the anaethesia and intensive
care of infants and children must include discussions of morbidity
rates, so as to guide the clincians in choosing the diagnostic approach,
as well as of monotoring techniques appropriate to support the
therapeutic decision. Recent progress in intensive care medicine for
infants and children has been significant.