Publications by authors named "Fakler U"

The following document provides a summary of the guidelines and recommendations for paediatric cardiac intensive care training as a requirement for recognition as a European paediatric cardiologist. It is therefore primarily targeting paediatric cardiology trainees in Europe, including those doctors who might wish to become experts in cardiac intensive care. These recommendations represent a frame for consistency, will evolve, and may be adapted to specific institutional requirements.

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Background: Prenatal 3-dimensional (3D) ultrasound allows volumetry of the fetal brain, liver and measurement of myocardial mass (MM). We studied the reliability of this method in an interdisciplinary approach, defined the relation of the values throughout gestation, and evaluated the results in fetuses with congenital heart disease (CHD).

Methods: In 104 fetuses (39 with CHD) between 14 and 38 weeks of gestation 3D ultrasound was prospectively performed.

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Objectives: To validate a new device (PiCCO system; Pulsion Medical Systems, Munich, Germany), we compared cardiac index derived from transpulmonary thermodilution and from pulse contour analysis in pediatric patients after surgery for congenital heart disease. We performed a prospective clinical study in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit of a university hospital.

Methods: Twenty-four patients who had had cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease (median age 4.

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Objective: We sought to investigate the differences in assumed and measured oxygen consumption values for the determination of cardiac output by using the Fick principle in a pediatric population with congenital heart disease.

Methods: The patient population consisted of 143 patients with a mean age of 11.3 years (age range, 2 days to 23.

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Objective: To show the equivalence of the transpulmonary thermodilution method to the direct Fick principle in children.

Design: Prospective single-centre study.

Setting: A 16-bed paediatric cardiac ICU and a cardiac catheterisation laboratory at an university affiliated centre for paediatric cardiology and congenital heart disease.

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