Postoperative junctional ectopic tachycardia in children: Incidence, risk factors, and treatment

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1607-1611

  Hoffman, Timothy M ^a   Bush, David M ^a   Wernovsky, Gil ^a   Cohen, Mitchell I ^a   Wieand, Tammy S ^a   Gaynor, J William ^a   Spray, Thomas L ^a   Rhodes, Larry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; DOPAMINE; MILRINONE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART PACING; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TELEMETRY;

AMIODARONE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MILRINONE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC JUNCTIONAL;

EID: 0036839810     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04014-6     Document Type: Article

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