Transport of infants with congenital heart disease

Autor:	Althaf Ansary
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Heart Defects Congenital Male Patient Transfer Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Heart disease business.industry Retrospective cohort study medicine.disease Respiratory support Permissive hypotension Pregnancy Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Humans Medicine Female business
Zdroj:	European Journal of Pediatrics. 174:703-703
ISSN:	1432-1076 0340-6199
DOI:	10.1007/s00431-014-2438-8
Popis:	I read the recent article [2] on transport of infants with congenital heart disease with interest. The authors report safer and less resource intense transfer of infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) who had antenatal diagnosis (ANdx) when compared to postnatal diagnosis in a retrospective cohort study over 5 years. It would be interesting to know whether infants in these two groups were contemporary or the ANdx group weremore recent. There has been a significant improvement in ANdx of CHD in the last decade worldwide, and a study done from the same region has previously reported an annual improvement of 9 % in the ANdx of CHD [1]. It is important to look for time trend as there is significant improvement in initial stabilisation and change in practice to non-invasive ventilation and permissive hypotension in most of the neonatal units in managing sick infants. This in turn will reflect on the subsequent respiratory support and cardiac therapies required during transport.
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