Motor skills of 5-year-old children who underwent early cardiac surgery.

Unlabelled: Aims To describe the motor proficiency of 5-year-old children who underwent early infant cardiac surgery and had atypical infant gross motor development. To identify risk factors for motor dysfunction at 5 years of age.

Methods: A total of 33 children (80.

Challenges in trying to implement an early intervention program for infants with congenital heart disease.

Purpose: To describe challenges in trying to implement a physical therapy-based early intervention program for infants with congenital heart disease.

Methods: Neonates with cyanotic congenital heart disease who had elective or emergency cardiac surgery at age 28 days or less participated in the study. Families were offered hospital-based physical therapy intervention from infant age of 3 months.

Gross motor development is delayed following early cardiac surgery.

Objective: To describe the gross motor development of infants who had undergone cardiac surgery in the neonatal or early infant period.

Methods: Gross motor performance was assessed when infants were 4, 8, 12, and 16 months of age with the Alberta Infant Motor Scale. This scale is a discriminative gross motor outcome measure that may be used to assess infants from birth to independent walking.

Performance of 2-year-old children after early surgery for congenital heart disease on the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition.

Background: Previous research on developmental outcomes of infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) has shown delays in both cognitive and motor skills.

Aims: To describe outcomes on the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, 3rd edition (Bayley-III) for infants with CHD and to compare those findings to published results for similar samples of infants assessed on the 2nd edition of the Bayley Scales (BSID-II).

Study Design: Prospective cohort.