Pulmonary hypertension among children with in-hospital cardiac arrest: A multicenter study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To determine the prevalence of pulmonary hypertension (PH) among children with in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) and its association with survival.

Methods

Children (<18 years) admitted to ICUs participating in the Virtual Pediatric Systems multicenter registry between January 2011 and December 2017 who had an IHCA during their hospitalization were included. Patients were classified by whether they had a documented diagnosis of PH at the time of IHCA. Clinical characteristics were compared between patients with and without PH. After propensity score matching, conditional logistic regression within the matched cohort determined the association between PH and survival to hospital discharge.

Results

Of 18,575 children with IHCA during the study period, 1,590 (8.6%)

SUBMITTER: Morgan RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8551027 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature