Dashboard of Short-Term Postoperative Patient Outcomes for Anesthesiologists: Development and Preliminary Evaluation.

Background: Anesthesiologists require an understanding of their patients' outcomes to evaluate their performance and improve their practice. Traditionally, anesthesiologists had limited information about their surgical outpatients' outcomes due to minimal contact post discharge. Leveraging digital health innovations for analyzing personal and population outcomes may improve perioperative care.

Infant repair of massive aortic aneurysm with prosthetic valved conduit.

A 4-month-old child with severe infantile Marfan syndrome underwent successful repair of an extremely dilated aortic root and severe aortic valve insufficiency using a prosthetic valved conduit.

Does troponin-I measurement predict low cardiac output syndrome following cardiac surgery in children?

Objective: To determine whether serum troponin I (TnI), measured 4 hours after surgery for congenital heart disease, is a predictor of myocardial dysfunction and low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS).

Design: Prospective, observational study.

Setting: Paediatric intensive care unit in a tertiary care academic children's hospital, 1 June 2003 to 12 May 2004.