Efficacy of Evolving Early-Extubation Strategy on Early Postoperative Functional Recovery in Pediatric Open-Heart Surgery
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Abstract
There has been a paradigm shift toward "fast-track" management with early extubation (EE) in cardiac surgery. Our retrospective, matched case-control study wishes to define the benefits of EE in pediatric congenital heart surgery. We examined 50 consecutive pediatric cardiac surgery patients extubated in the operating room (February 2009 to July 2009) against a control group of delayed-extubation patients. No significant differences were found in preoperative variables except heart failure medication. Significant intraoperative variables included the following: blood products (363 vs 487 mL, P = .023), morphine (62% vs 6%, P < .0001), and inotropes (16% vs 60%, P < .0001) given. Postoperatively significant differences included hospital stay and lower inotrope scores in the early-extubation group (14.89 vs 31.68, P < .0001). The reintubation rate was not significant. EE patients have equivalent hemodynamic profiles shown by a decreased necessity for inotropic support. We conclude that EE is feasible in low-/medium-risk pediatric congenital heart surgery patients.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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