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. 2024 Aug;38(8):1634-1640.
doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2024.03.034. Epub 2024 Mar 28.

Selected 2023 Highlights in Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia

Ingrid Moreno-Duarte  1 , Rishi Bharat Parikh  2 , Joanna Paquin  3 , Jochen Steppan  2 , James P Spaeth  4 , Viviane G Nasr  5 , Alexander J C Mittnacht  6 , Emad B Mossad  7
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Selected 2023 Highlights in Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia

Ingrid Moreno-Duarte et al. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2024 Aug.

Abstract

This article reviews the highlights of pertinent literature of interest to the congenital cardiac anesthesiologist published in 2023. After a search of the US National Library of Medicine PubMed database, several topics emerged where significant contributions were made in 2023. The authors of this article considered the following topics noteworthy to be included in this review: (1) advancements in percutaneous mechanical support in children with congenital heart disease, (2) children with pulmonary hypertension undergoing surgery for congenital heart disease, (3) dexmedetomidine in pediatric cardiac surgery, and (4) recommendations for pediatric heart surgery in the United States: Implications for pediatric cardiac anesthesia.

Keywords: congenital heart disease; congenital heart surgery; dexmedetomidine; pediatric; pediatric cardiac anesthesia; pediatric heart surgery; percutaneous mechanical support; pulmonary hypertension; ventricular assist device.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. The authors below are an Editorial Board Member/Editor-in-Chief/Associate Editor/Guest Editor for [Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia] and were not involved in the editorial review or the decision to publish this article: Alexander Mittnacht, Emad Mossad, Viviane Nasr, and Jochen Steppan.

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