Determinants of intensive care unit length of stay for infants undergoing cardiac surgery

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 152-160

  Gillespie, Matthew ^a   Kuijpers, Marijn ^b   Van Rossem, Maike ^b   Ravishankar, Chitra ^a   Gaynor, J William ^a   Spray, Thomas ^a   Clark III, Bernard ^c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac intensive care; Cardiac surgery; Complexity score; Length of stay

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEART ARREST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NOSE FEEDING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 33746321599     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2006.00027.x     Document Type: Review

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