Preoperative Determinants of Outcomes of Infant Heart Surgery in a Limited-Resource Setting

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 331-338

  Reddy, N Srinath ^a   Kappanayil, Mahesh ^a   Balachandran, Rakhi ^a   Jenkins, Kathy J ^b   Sudhakar, Abish ^a   Sunil, G S ^a   Benedict Raj, R ^a   Kumar, R Krishna ^a  

^a AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

bloodstream infection; congenital heart surgery; limited resources; preoperative risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; INDIA; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84960865510     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: 15329488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2015.09.008     Document Type: Article

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