Validation of the Cardiac Children's Hospital Early Warning Score: an early warning scoring tool to prevent cardiopulmonary arrests in children with heart disease

• Published in: Congenital heart disease Vol. 9; no. 3; p. 194
• Main Authors: McLellan, Mary C, Gauvreau, Kimberlee, Connor, Jean A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.2014
• Subjects: Age Factors; Algorithms; Area Under Curve; Child, Preschool; Critical Pathways; Decision Support Techniques; Female; Heart Arrest - diagnosis; Heart Arrest - etiology; Heart Arrest - prevention & control; Heart Defects, Congenital - complications; Heart Defects, Congenital - diagnosis; Heart Defects, Congenital - therapy; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Inpatients; Male; Observer Variation; Predictive Value of Tests; Prognosis; Reproducibility of Results; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; ROC Curve; Early Warning Score; Congenital Heart Disease; Cardiopulmonary Arrest Prevention

Most inpatient pediatric arrests are preventable by early recognition/treatment of deterioration. Children with cardiac disease have the highest arrest rates; however, early warning scoring systems have not been validated in this population. The objective of this study was to validate the Cardiac Ch...