Cardiac arrest occurs at a higher rate in children with heart disease than in healthy children.
Pediatric basic life support and advanced life support guidelines focus on delivering high …

The purpose of this review is to discuss the management of the low cardiac output syndrome
(LCOS) following surgery for congenital heart disease. The LCOS is a well-recognized …

Purpose Prospective validation of the vasoactive-inotropic score (VIS) and inotrope score
(IS) in infants after cardiovascular surgery. Methods Prospective observational study of 70 …

Objective: To describe our experience with low-dose arginine vasopressin infusions (0.0003
U/kg/min) initiated in the operating room after the Norwood procedure or arterial switch …

Background Arginine vasopressin is a nonapeptide hormone with effects on intracellular
water transport and arterial tone that is used in distributive shock and following …

BackgroundFollowing the Norwood palliation, neonates may require an escalation of
inotropic and vasoactive support. Arginine Vasopressin may be uniquely useful in …

ObjectiveTo describe the haemodynamic response of children who receive arginine
vasopressin for haemodynamic instability after cardiac surgery and to identify clinical …

Low copeptin levels may indicate inadequate arginine-vasopressin release promoting
arterial hypotension, whereas high copeptin concentrations may reflect disease severity …

Purpose Relative arginine vasopressin (AVP) deficiency after pediatric cardiac surgery has
recently been described. Copeptin, a more stable and easily measured product of pro-AVP …

Vasopressin has been used to augment blood pressure; however, cardiovascular effects
after cardiac surgery have not been well established. The primary objective of this study was …