Preoperative malnutrition is associated with increased mortality and adverse outcomes after paediatric cardiac surgery

• Published in: Cardiology in the young Vol. 27; no. 9; pp. 1716 - 1725
• Main Authors: Ross, Faith, Latham, Gregory, Joffe, Denise, Richards, Michael, Geiduschek, Jeremy, Eisses, Michael, Thompson, Douglas, Radman, Monique
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.11.2017
• Subjects: Age; Cardiovascular disease; Children; Children & youth; Congenital diseases; Continuity (mathematics); Defects; Heart; Heart diseases; Heart surgery; Hospitals; Infections; Malnutrition; Mechanical ventilation; Metabolism; Mortality; Nutrition; Nutritional status; Original Articles; Patients; Regression analysis; Risk factors; Surgery; Surgical outcomes; Ventilation; Ventilators; United States > US; malnutrition; Nutrition; CHD; congenital cardiac surgery

Malnutrition is common in children with CHD and is likely to place them at an increased risk for adverse surgical outcomes. We sought to evaluate the impact of preoperative malnutrition on outcomes after paediatric cardiac surgery. We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients from age 0 to 5 ye...