Predictors of Postoperative Rehabilitation Therapy Following Congenital Heart Surgery.

ABSTRACT: Patients with congenital heart disease are at risk of motor, cognitive, speech, and feeding difficulties after cardiac surgery. Rehabilitation therapy could improve functional outcomes in this population if applied in the acute postcardiac surgical in-hospital stay. However, information on the types of acute postcardiac surgery therapy needs in children is scarce. Our goal was to describe rehabilitation therapy following congenital heart surgery and pre/intraoperative factors associated with need for therapy. This is a retrospective cohort study of patients <18 years undergoing heart surgery at our center from January 1, 2013 to January 31, 2015. Demographic, and pre-, intra-, and postoperative clinical and rehabilitation therapy (physical, occupational, speech, feeding therapy, and neurod

SUBMITTER: Ubeda Tikkanen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015299 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature