Publisher's Synopsis
One of the major trends in paediatric cardiology over the past two decades has been an increase in both the frequency and range of procedures performed on ever younger patients with cardiac anomalies. With these shifts in management strategies, there has been an increasing need for a steady and constant database of operative experience by which to compare operative results and establish quality standards. This book aims at filling this need. Here, finally, is a remarkably extensive yet accessible database that can be used to identify areas for improvement.
This book presents comprehensive information about 27,000 cardiac operations and 1,500 interventional cardiac catheterizations performed in infants, children, and adolescents with a cardiac malformation, the data being derived from a collaborative study from more than 30 hospitals in the United States and Canada between 1984 and 1995.
After introductory chapters about the data collection system, relative incidence and prevalence, the authors focus on specific cardiac anomalies or operatives – even relatively uncommon ones. Each chapter presents information about operative mortality (including comparison data) and the factors which affect it. Length of stay data is also provided.
