Anesthesia-Related Cardiac Arrest in Children with Heart Disease

Ramamoorthy, Chandra; M. Haberkern, Charles; M. Bhananker, Sanjay; B. Domino, Karen; L. Posner, Karen; Campos, John; P. Morray, Jeffrey

doi:10.1213/ane.0b013e3181c9f927

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Anesthesia-Related Cardiac Arrest in Children with Heart Disease

Published in Anesthesia & Analgesia • Mar 18, 2010

Authors:

Chandra Ramamoorthy

Charles M. Haberkern

Sanjay M. Bhananker

Abstract

BACKGROUND: From 1994 to 2005, the Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest Registry collected data on 373 anesthesia-related cardiac arrests (CAs) in children, 34% of whom had congenital or acquired heart disease (HD). METHODS: Nearly 80 North American institutions that provide anesthesia for childre...

Subject

Medicine

Perioperative

Cardiomyopathy

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