Objective: To evaluate current practices of tracheostomy in children regarding the ideal
timing of tracheostomy placement, complications, indications, mortality, and success in …

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database (STS CHSD) is the
largest congenital and pediatric cardiac surgical clinical data registry in the world. It contains …

Objective We sought to describe characteristics and operative outcomes of children who
underwent repair of truncus arteriosus and identify risk factors for the occurrence of major …

Background Literature describing morbidity and mortality after truncus arteriosus repair is
predominated by single-center reports. We created and analyzed a multicenter dataset to …

OBJECTIVES: To describe epidemiology, interventions, outcomes, and the health services
experience for a cohort of children with pulmonary hypertension (PH) who underwent …

Background Despite surgical advances, acute type A aortic dissection remains a life-
threatening disease with high mortality and morbidity. Tracheostomy is usually used for …

OBJECTIVES: To describe associations between the timing of tracheostomy and patient
characteristics or outcomes in the cardiac ICU (CICU). DESIGN: Single-institution …

Outcomes after discharge in children requiring tracheostomy after cardiac surgery have not
been fully described. A retrospective, single-center study was performed on all children< 18 …

Introducción El incremento de la supervivencia de niños con enfermedades graves ha
supuesto el aumento de niños con patología crónica altamente compleja, en ocasiones con …

Introduction An increasing number of tracheostomies are performed in infants with complex
comorbidities including bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and congenital heart disease …