Publications by authors named "M O'Byrne"
The C3PO collaborative, with a history of successful quality improvement (QI) initiatives, leveraged registry participants to develop a multi-center QI initiative to reduce adverse events (AEs) in congenital cardiac catheterization. A 32-person, interdisciplinary working group analyzed audited data for all congenital cardiac catheterization cases from 2014-2017. The primary outcome was the occurrence of any high-severity (level 3/4/5) AE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To describe common pulmonary vasodilators (PV), exposure timing, and characteristics associated to their use in very preterm (VP) infants.
Study Design: Observational study of VP infants discharged from U.S.
Background: Health related quality of life (HRQOL) is a patient-reported metric (PRM) that provides a holistic measure of health that is not addressed in traditional outcome measures. The acute responsiveness of HRQOL after pediatric/congenital cardiac catheterization procedures has not, to our knowledge, been studied.
Methods: A single-center prospective cohort study was performed, longitudinally evaluating HRQOL and other PRM in school-age children and adolescents (ages 8-18) undergoing diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization procedures prior to their scheduled procedure, and then 1 day, ∼1 month, and ∼3 months after the procedure.
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- * Researchers found that while most children had normal neurodevelopmental scores, a significant number displayed issues, especially as they grew older; specific factors like low birth weight and maternal education influenced outcomes.
- * The findings suggest that children with sTOF may have elevated developmental concerns, and although the type of surgical intervention didn't seem to affect these outcomes, other risks like genetic syndromes are important to consider for early intervention.