Higher Survival Rates Among Younger Patients After Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Cardiac Arrests

2006241 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Peter A. Meaney · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Vinay Nadkarni · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

E. Francis Cook · Harvard University

Marcia Testa · Harvard University

Mark A. Helfaer · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

William Kaye · Brown University

Gregory Luke Larkin

Abstract

Survival from pediatric ICU cardiac arrest is age dependent. Newborns and infants have better survival rates even after adjusting for potential confounding variables.

Topics & Keywords

Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Emergency and Acute Care Studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: PEDIATRICS

Volume 118, Issue 6, pp. 2424-2433

DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-1724

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