Epidemiology and Outcomes of Cardiac Arrest in Pediatric Cardiac ICUs.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In-hospital cardiac arrest occurs in 2.6-6% of children with cardiac disease and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Much remains unknown about cardiac arrest in pediatric cardiac ICUs; therefore, we aimed to describe cardiac arrest epidemiology in a contemporary multicenter cardiac ICU cohort.

Design

Retrospective analysis within the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium clinical registry.

Setting

Cardiac ICUs within 23 North American hospitals.

Patients

All cardiac medical and surgical patients admitted from August 2014 to July 2016.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

There were 15,908 cardiac ICU encounters (6,498 medical, 9,410 surgical). 3.1% had cardiac arrest; rate was 4.8 cardiac arrest pe

SUBMITTER: Alten JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5628130 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature