In contrast to adults, cardiac arrest in infants and children does not usually result from a
primary cardiac cause. More often it is the terminal result of progressive respiratory failure or …

Sepsis or serious infection within the first 4 weeks of life kills more than 1 million newborns
globally every year. 1 The attack rate for neonatal sepsis is variable (from< 1% to> 35% of …

Adult basic life support and use of automated external defibrillators; 4

These guidelines on paediatric life support are based on two main principles:(1) the
incidence of critical illness, particularly cardiopulmonary arrest, and injury in children is …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between prenatal and postnatal preoperative
cerebral findings and NDO in infants with CHD who require corrective or palliative surgery …

Note From the Writing Group: Throughout this article, the reader will notice combinations of
superscripted letters and numbers (eg,“Family Presence During Resuscitation Peds-003”) …

Cardiac arrest occurs at a higher rate in children with heart disease than in healthy children.
Pediatric basic life support and advanced life support guidelines focus on delivering high …

Background Cardiovascular instability is common in critically ill children. There is a scarcity
of published high-quality studies to develop meaningful evidence-based hemodynamic …

Since the completion of the first edition of this book, major developments have occurred in
the pharmaceutical industry that have shaped the field of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy …

Disclaimer 2020: The EACTS/AEPC Guidelines represent the views of the EACTS and the
AEPC and were produced after careful consideration of the scientific and medical …