Acute Neurologic Injury in Children Admitted to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.

CONCLUSIONS: Neurologic injuries are common in pediatric cardiac intensive cares and are associated with an increase in mortality and hospital length of stay. Children admitted to the CICU are likely to benefit from improved surveillance and neuroprotective strategies to prevent neurological mortality.
PMID: 30682351 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - January 22, 2019 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Bell JL, Saenz L, Domnina Y, Baust T, Panigrahy A, Bell MJ, Camprubí-Camprubí M, Sanchez-de-Toledo J Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research