Abstract | OBJECTIVES: Characterize the use of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) for pediatric cardiac patients and assess the relationship between patient characteristics before iNO initiation and outcomes following cardiac surgery. DESIGN: Observational cohort study. SETTING: PICU and cardiac ICUs in seven Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network hospitals. PATIENTS: INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Four-hundred seven patients with iNO initiation based on cardiac dysfunction. Cardiac dysfunction patients were administered iNO for a median of 4 days (2-7 d). There was significant morbidity with 51 of 407 (13%) requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and 27 of 407 (7%) requiring renal replacement therapy after iNO initiation, and a 28-day mortality of 46 of 407 (11%). Of the 366 (90%) survivors, 64 of 366 patients (17%) had new morbidity as assessed by Functional Status Scale. Among the postoperative cardiac surgical group (n = 301), 37 of 301 (12%) had a superior cavopulmonary connection and nine of 301 (3%) had a Fontan procedure. Based on echocardiographic variables prior to iNO (n = 160) in the postoperative surgical group, right ventricle dysfunction was associated with 28-day and hospital mortalities (both, p < 0.001) and ventilator-free days (p = 0.003); tricuspid valve regurgitation was only associated with ventilator-free days (p < 0.001), whereas pulmonary hypertension was not associated with mortality or ventilator-free days. CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | Andrew R Yates, John T Berger, Ron W Reeder, Russell Banks, Peter M Mourani, Robert A Berg, Joseph A Carcillo, Todd Carpenter, Mark W Hall, Kathleen L Meert, Patrick S McQuillen, Murray M Pollack, Anil Sapru, Daniel A Notterman, Richard Holubkov, J Michael Dean, David L Wessel, on behalf of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network |
Journal | Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
(Pediatr Crit Care Med)
Vol. 23
Issue 4
Pg. 245-254
(04 01 2022)
ISSN: 1529-7535 [Print] United States |
PMID | 35200229
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Observational Study, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)
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Copyright | Copyright © 2022 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. |
Chemical References |
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Topics |
- Administration, Inhalation
- Adolescent
- Child
- Female
- Humans
- Hypertension, Pulmonary
(drug therapy)
- Infant, Newborn
- Meconium Aspiration Syndrome
- Nitric Oxide
(therapeutic use)
- Ventricular Dysfunction, Right
(drug therapy)
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