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Databases for Assessing the Outcomes of the Treatment of Patients with Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Disease: The Perspective of Anesthesia

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The Joint Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society-Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Database is a multi-institutional registry that tracks variables related to the anesthetic management of patients with pediatric and congenital cardiac disease. This registry is an optional module of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database and is part of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society’s commitment to patient care and research on outcomes improvement. Patients in the registry include not only cardiac surgical patients but also those with pediatric and congenital cardiac disease undergoing procedures in locations other than the operating room, including in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, intensive care unit, general operating room, and radiology suite. Because of the relative infrequency of anesthesia-related events in this low-volume procedure, a multi-institutional database is the most reasonable approach to capture a sufficient number of patient encounters in a timely manner to support outcomes analysis, quality assessment, and quality improvement.

Children undergoing repair of congenital heart defects are among the sickest population treated by anesthesiologists. The incidence of complications such as cardiac arrest related to anesthesia is proportionally much higher, the difficulties associated with airway and vascular access are well known, and the time and money spent on their care is substantial. To date there have been no systematic reviews of their anesthetic care and the associated complications, particularly those that do not result in cardiac arrest. The Joint Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society-Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Database marks the first real-time picture of the “state-of-the-art” of anesthetic care for patient with pediatric and congenital cardiac disease. This information will help guide future care as well as provide better information for the patients and their families.

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  1. Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesia, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, 6621 Fannin, WT17417B, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    David F. Vener MD

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  1. School of Medicine,, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Paul R. Barach

  2. Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, All Children’s Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children, Johns Hopkins University, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Orlando, FL, USA,, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Jeffery P. Jacobs

  3. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    Steven E. Lipshultz

  4. The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Peter C. Laussen

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Vener, D.F. (2015). Databases for Assessing the Outcomes of the Treatment of Patients with Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Disease: The Perspective of Anesthesia. In: Barach, P., Jacobs, J., Lipshultz, S., Laussen, P. (eds) Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6587-3_10

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