Key result
Review outlines identification and management of pediatric cardiac emergencies including SVT, hypercyanotic spells, and CHF.
Why the study?
Patients with congenital heart defects are surviving longer but remain at increased risk of acute cardiac events requiring emergency care.
This review provides an overview of the identification and management of common life-threatening pediatric cardiac emergencies for emergency department practitioners.
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Adult CHD survivors may present more often to ERs; leaves open need for dedicated protocols and training.
With the advent of and advancesin diagnostic methods and transcatheter and surgical treatment modes, patients with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) are surviving longer. Cardiac defects that were once fatal in infancy are now treatable and patients are surviving into adulthood. However, these patients are at increased risk of acute events and therefore, likely to frequent emergency rooms. These patients should now be added to the group of CHD patients that would ordinarily come thru’ the emergency rooms. Presented in this review is a selection of the more common lifethreatening pediatric cardiac emergencies likely to be encountered in the emergency department. The identification and management of Supraventricular tachycardia, hyper cyanotic spells, congestive heart failure, emergencies in the palliated patients with a functional single ventricle and neurologic events related to congenital heart disease are discussed.
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Maria C Yates Syamasundar Rao P (2013) conducted a review in Pediatric Cardiac Emergencies. Management of pediatric cardiac emergencies was evaluated. This review outlines the identification and management of common pediatric cardiac emergencies, including supraventricular tachycardia, hypercyanotic spells, and congestive heart failure.
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