Implementation of a Regional Oxygen Saturation Thought Algorithm and Association with Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Patients Following Cardiac Surgery.

Near infrared spectroscopy is routinely used in the noninvasive monitoring of cerebral and somatic regional oxygen saturation (rSO) in pediatric patients following surgery for congenital heart disease. We sought to evaluate the association of a bedside rSO thought algorithm with clinical outcomes in a cohort of pediatric patients following cardiac surgery. This was a single-center retrospective cohort study of patients admitted following cardiac surgery over a 42-month period.