Surgical innovation and multidisciplinary management have allowed children born with
univentricular physiology congenital heart disease to survive into adulthood. An estimated …

Life expectancy and quality of life for those born with congenital heart disease (CHD) have
greatly improved over the past 3 decades. While representing a great advance for these …

Although laparoscopic surgery accounts for> 2 million surgical procedures every year, the
current preoperative risk scores and guidelines do not adequately assess the risks of …

The objective of this article is to provide an updated and comprehensive review on current
perioperative anaesthetic management of paediatric patients with congenital heart disease …

In a normal biventricular heart, the systemic and pulmonary circulations are in series and
each circulation is supported by a ventricle. In patients born with a single ventricular …

The Fontan circulation is the single-ventricle approach to surgical palliation of complex
congenital heart disease wherein biventricular separation and function cannot be safely …

From the* Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; and† Department of Anesthesiology, Division of …

Background The purpose of this study was to examine the volume and variability of
noncardiac surgeries performed in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) requiring …

Objectives To describe the experience of a single, tertiary care institution in the care of
patients with F ontan physiology undergoing anesthesia for noncardiac surgery. Background …

Patients with congenital heart diseases are a growing population, and noncardiac surgeries
will become an important health care issue. Patients with single ventricle physiology are a …