What are the important morbidities associated with paediatric cardiac surgery? A mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Given the current excellent early mortality rates for paediatric cardiac surgery, stakeholders believe that this important safety outcome should be supplemented by a wider range of measures. Our objectives were to prospectively measure the incidence of morbidities following paediatric cardiac surgery and to evaluate their clinical and health-economic impact over 6 months.

Design

The design was a prospective, multicentre, multidisciplinary mixed methods study.

Setting

The setting was 5 of the 10 paediatric cardiac surgery centres in the UK with 21 months recruitment.

Participants

Included were 3090 paediatric cardiac surgeries, of which 666 patients were recruited to an impact substudy.

Results

Families and clinicians prioritised:Acute neurolog

SUBMITTER: Brown KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6738689 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature