Christopher W Mastropietro, Peter Sassalos, Christine M Riley, Kurt Piggott, Kiona Y Allen, Elizabeth Prentice, Raya Safa, Jason R Buckley, David K Werho, Martin Wakeham, Arthur Smerling, Andrew R Yates, Ilias Iliopoulos, Hitesh Sandhu, Saurabh Chiwane, Asaad Beshish, David M Kwiatkowski, Saul Flores, Sukumar Suguna Narashimhulu, Rohit Loomba, Christine A Capone, Francis Pike, John M Costello
OBJECTIVES: Multicenter studies reporting outcomes following tracheostomy in children with congenital heart disease are limited, particularly in patients with single ventricle physiology. We aimed to describe clinical characteristics and outcomes in a multicenter cohort of patients with single ventricle physiology who underwent tracheostomy before Fontan operation. DESIGN: Multicenter retrospective cohort study.SETTING: Twenty-one tertiary care pediatric institutions participating in the Collaborative Research from the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society...
April 29, 2024: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine