BACKGROUND Our previous randomized, clinical trial showed that postoperative tight glycemic control (TGC) for children undergoing cardiac surgery did not reduce the rate of health care-associated infections compared with standard care (STD). Heterogeneity of treatment effect may exist within this population. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed a post hoc exploratory analysis of 980 children from...

INTRODUCTION Neuromuscular blockade (NMB) is widely used during therapeutic hypothermia (TH) after cardiac arrest but its effect on patient outcomes is unclear. We compared the effects of NMB on neurological outcomes and frequency of early-onset pneumonia in cardiac-arrest survivors managed with TH. METHODS We retrospectively studied consecutive adult cardiac-arrest survivors managed with TH ...

objective: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) has been known in its present form since 1960. different studies have reported variable outcomes among different countries. therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the rate of cpr success and the survival rate in managing cardiac arrest among patients in an educational medical center. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed at ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: coronary artery bypass graft is one of common cardiac surgeries which unfortunately accompany with some adverse events such as delirium. proinflammatory processes play an important role in pathogenesis of post-operative delirium. therefore, the effect of dexamethasone (dex) on post-operative delirium after cardiac surgery was evaluated. ...

Pediatric cardiovascular centers should aim to provide high-quality therapeutic outcomes for infants and children with congenital and acquired heart diseases. This policy statement describes critical elements and organizational features of centers in which high-quality outcomes have the greatest likelihood of occurring. Center elements include noninvasive diagnostic modalities, cardiac catheter...

Pediatric cardiovascular centers should aim to provide high-quality therapeutic outcomes for infants and children with congenital and acquired heart diseases. This policy statement describes critical elements and organizational features of centers in which high-quality outcomes have the greatest likelihood of occurring. Center elements include noninvasive diagnostic modalities, cardiac catheter...

Recently, many studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship between hyperoxia and mortality in various cohorts of intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Results from these studies have been varied and often contradictory. The first of a series of studies by Kilgannon et al found arterial hyperoxia was independently associated with increased in-hospital mortality compared with either...

PURPOSE The highly complex pediatric patients with congenital heart disease require interprofessional teamwork and collaboration to ensure high-quality outcomes with low mortality and morbidity (Congenit Heart Dis. 2013;8:3-19). The purpose of this study was to conduct an impact evaluation for a newly formed pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (PCICU) and to answer: Is there a difference betw...

Refractory cardiac shock in the cardiac surgical intensive care unit confers significant morbidity and mortality. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has become a common intervention for refractory cardiogenic shock when other therapies have failed. However, it is difficult to predict who will benefit from this costly, resource-intensive, but potentially life-saving technology. Here, we ...

a survey of tissue oxygenation differences in intensive care patients with blood transfusion     haghighimoghadamy [1] *, valizadeh ma [2] , feizi a [3]     received: 26 dec, 2011 accepted: 7 mar, 2012     abstract   background & aims : greater than 75% patient that hospitalized in intensive care units has anemia. blood transfusion in icu is not recently and about 40-70% patients in intensive c...