Publications by authors named "Suzan Kakat"
Objective: To describe neurodevelopment and follow-up services in preschool children with heart disease (HD).
Design: Secondary analysis of a prospectively collected multicentre dataset.
Setting: Three London tertiary cardiac centres.
Objectives: To examine parental experiences of childhood extracorporeal membrane oxygenation survivors to understand: 1) the problems children faced and 2) the support received following hospital discharge.
Design: Single-center descriptive study.
Setting: Nationally commissioned center for neonatal and pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Background: It has previously been shown in an uncontrolled study that the IgE response to vaccine antigens is downregulated by co-vaccination with cellular Bordetella pertussis vaccine.
Methods: In the present study, we compared in a controlled trial the humoral immune response to diphtheria toxoid (D) and tetanus toxoid (T) in relation to co-vaccinated cellular or acellular B pertussis vaccine. IgE, IgG4, and IgG to D and T were analyzed at 2, 7, and 12 months of age in sera of children vaccinated with D and T (DT, N = 68), cellular (DTPw, N = 68), 2- or 5-component acellular B pertussis vaccine (DTPa2, N = 64; DTPa5, N = 65).
Unlabelled: Introduction The objective of this study was to prospectively validate the "Brief Developmental Assessment", which is a new early recognition tool for neurodevelopmental abnormalities in children with heart disease that was developed for use by cardiac teams.
Methods: This was a prospective validation study among a representative sample of 960 pre-school children with heart disease from three United Kingdom tertiary cardiac centres who were analysed grouped into five separate age bands.
Results: The "Brief Developmental Assessment" was successfully validated in the older four age bands, but not in the youngest representing infants under the age of 4 months, as pre-set validation thresholds were met - lower 95% confidence limit for the correlation coefficient above 0.
Objectives: To establish the effectiveness of a "1-year extracorporeal membrane oxygenation follow-up clinic" and to characterize any neurodevelopmental concerns identified.
Design: Single-center retrospective cohort of respiratory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation survivors over 10 years.
Setting: Nationally commissioned center for neonatal and pediatric (> 28 d of life) respiratory extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Background: Teamwork is a critical component during critical events. Assessment is mandatory for remediation and to target training programmes for observed performance gaps.
Methods: The primary purpose was to test the feasibility of team-based self-monitoring of crisis resource management with a validated teamwork assessment tool.