Five-year Analysis of Operative Mortality and Neonatal Outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 460-467

  Padley, James R ^a,b   Cole, Andrew D ^a   Pye, Victoria E ^a   Chard, Richard B ^a,b   Nicholson, Ian A ^a,b   Jacobe, Stephen ^a,b   Baines, David ^a,b   Badawi, Nadia ^a,b   Walker, Karen ^a,b   Scarfe, Gabbie ^a   Leclair, Karen ^a   Sholler, Gary F ^a,b   Winlaw, David S ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Neonate; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CASE MIX; CHYLOTHORAX; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; HEART ARREST; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN OUTCOME; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ADJUSTMENT IN CONGENITAL HEART SURGERY 1 SCORE; RISK FACTOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958698901     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: 14442892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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