Should early extubation be the goal for children after congenital cardiac surgery? Kevin C. Harris, MD, MHSc, Spencer Holowachuk, BHK, Sandy Pitfield, MD, Shubhayan Sanatani, MD, Norbert Froese, MD, James E. Potts, PhD, Sanjiv K. Gandhi, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 148, Issue 6, Pages 2642-2648 (December 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.06.093 Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Cardiopulmonary bypass and circulatory arrest times stratified by age group (<30 days and 1-2, 2-4, 4-6, 6-12, and >12 months) and the number of subjects in each cohort. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 148, 2642-2648DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.06.093) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Frequency distribution of surgical age sorted into age groups (neonates [<30 days] and 1-2, 2-4, 4-6, 6-12, and >12 months). The percentage of patients extubated early (≤24 hours) in each cohort is indicated in the text box and represented in each bar in black. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 148, 2642-2648DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.06.093) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions