Key result
Cardiac arrest occurred in 0.79% of anesthetics for congenital heart disease surgery, with anesthesia-related arrests occurring at a rate of 21.1 per 10,000 anesthetics and no associated mortality.
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Reassures on low anesthesia-related arrest mortality in congenital heart surgery; extends single-center estimates via multi-institutional registry data.
Observational (n=5,213)
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Odegard et al. (2007) conducted an observational in Congenital heart disease (n=5,213). Anesthesia during cardiac surgery was evaluated on Cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest occurred in 0.79% of anesthetics for congenital heart disease surgery, with anesthesia-related arrests occurring at a rate of 21.1 per 10,000 anesthetics and no associated mortality.