Publications by authors named "Eduardo Becerra Zapata"

Pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) has been reported in 1-3% of pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and up to 6% of children admissions to the cardiac ICU. In the last 25 years, the survival to hospital discharge after pediatric IHCA has improved from 9% to 13.7% up to 35%.

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Hypoxic hepatitis is a diagnosis of exclusion that should be suspected in patients with systemic hypoperfusion risk factors. It has a very high mortality, close to 50%. Although respiratory failure has been described as an etiologic factor for hypoxic hepatitis, cases of liver failure secondary to hypoxic hepatitis after lung transplantation have not been reported.

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