Early predictors of bacterial pneumonia infection in children with congenital heart disease after cardiopulmonary bypass: a single-centre retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective of this study was to evaluate the early predictors of bacterial pneumonia infection in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).

Design

Retrospective study.

Setting

A freestanding tertiary paediatric hospital in China.

Participants

Patients admitted to the hospital due to CHD who underwent open-heart surgery.

Outcome measures

We retrospectively reviewed and analysed data from 1622 patients with CHD after CPB from June 2018 to December 2020 at the Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University. Enrolled patients were assigned to an infection group or a non-infection group according to the presence of postoperative bacterial pneumonia infection, and the differences in clinical indicators we

SUBMITTER: Wang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10941142 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature