Should we be satisfied with current outcomes for cardiac extracorporeal life support?

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-90

  Thiagarajan, Ravi R ^a   Nelson, David P ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Cardiac surgical procedures; Extracorporeal life support; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Heart defects; Hypoplastic left heart syndrome; Infant; Neonate; Postoperative complications

Indexed keywords

CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; EDITORIAL; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MORTALITY; NEWBORN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOTE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21744444161     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000149233.45740.AA     Document Type: Editorial

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