Seminal Postoperative Complications and Mode of Death After Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Procedures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the seminal complications leading to death after pediatric cardiac surgical procedures may provide opportunities to reduce mortality. This study analyzed all deaths at two pediatric cardiac surgical programs and developed a method to identify the seminal complications and modes of death.

Methods

Trained nurses abstracted all cases of in-hospital mortality meeting inclusion criteria from each site over 5 years (2008 to 2012). Complication definitions were consistent with those of a multicenter clinical registry. An adjudication committee assigned a seminal complication in each case (the complication initiating the cascade of events leading to death). Seminal complications were grouped into categories to designate "mode of death." The epidemiology of s

SUBMITTER: Gaies M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4958574 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature