Factors associated with poor outcomes after congenital heart surgery in low-resource setting in Pakistan: insight from the IQIC Registry – a descriptive analysis
Shumaila Furnaz, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Rayyan Qureshi, Subhani Fatima, Sohail Khan Bangash, Musa Karim, Muneer Amanullah · 2023
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Shumaila Furnaz and co-authors study outcomes of children's heart surgery in Pakistan in a 2023 paper. The data come from a quality registry at the national heart institute in Karachi. Care for children born with heart defects is hard to deliver where resources are thin, and local outcome data guide where to improve first.
More than thirty-three hundred operations were reviewed. Most patients were boys, and most were between one and seventeen years old. About seven in one hundred patients died in the hospital. Infection after surgery was also common. Death risk rose for the youngest children, for those with low blood oxygen, and for the most complex operations on a standard risk scale. Teenagers fared better than young children. The authors say infection control and care for high-risk cases are the top targets.
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| CREATOR | Shumaila Furnaz, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Rayyan Qureshi, Subhani Fatima, Sohail Khan Bangash, Musa Karim, Muneer Amanullah |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |