Characterization of Inhaled Nitric Oxide Use for Cardiac Indications in Pediatric Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Characterize the use of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) for pediatric cardiac patients and assess the relationship between patient characteristics before iNO initiation and outcomes following cardiac surgery.

Design

Observational cohort study.

Setting

PICU and cardiac ICUs in seven Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network hospitals.

Patients

Consecutive patients, less than 18 years old, mechanically ventilated before or within 24 hours of iNO initiation. iNO was started for a cardiac indication and excluded newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia, meconium aspiration syndrome, and persistent pulmonary hypertension, or when iNO started at an outside institution.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Four-hundre

SUBMITTER: Yates AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9058189 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature