INTRODUCTION: Currently, patients diagnosed with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) are living longer lifespans, leading to an increased number of these patients presenting for non-cardiac procedures/surgeries. Little research has been recently done analyzing intraoperative complications/risks for CHD patients undergoing non-cardiac surgeries. This study aims to identify common intraoperative events experienced by CHD patients undergoing non-cardiac surgeries using more recent data, while at the same time analyzing to see if there is any difference in frequency of intraoperative events experienced between different types of CHD diagnoses.
METHODS: After receiving IRB approval, patients with CHD presenting for non-cardiac procedures/surgeries between the years 2008 and 2012 were pulled from Boston Children’s Hospital’s Electronic Medical records. 1,024 non-cardiac surgical encounters from 362 patients were analyzed to determine average age, average weight, patient gender, average ASA class, frequency of CHD diagnoses, ventricular function, type of non-cardiac procedure, premedication administration, type of induction and type and frequency of intraoperative events experienced. The 1,024 encounters were divided into two groups: those done in patients diagnosed with single ventricle physiology (n=79) and those done in patients diagnosed with non-single ventricle physiology (n=945). Unpaired Mann-Whitney tests were performed to determine if there was a significant difference in overall and specific intraoperative event occurrence between the single ventricle and non-single ventricle groups.
RESULTS: Average age and weight at the time of these surgical encounters was 4.86 years and 20.57 Kg. A majority of the surgical encounters were done in males (59.2%). Atrial septal defect was the most common type of CHD, and most of the patients in these surgical encounters received an ASA class of 3. Intraoperative events occurred in 24.4% of the surgical encounters with cardiovascular events being the most common (44.82% of total events). Other events made up 30.49% of events experienced intraoperatively, with respiratory events making up the remaining 24.70%. There was a significant difference in the occurrence of overall events between the single ventricle and non-single ventricle group (P<0.0001). Additionally, there was a significant difference in the occurrence of cardiovascular events (P<0.0001) and Other events (P=0.0001) between the single ventricle and non-single ventricle groups. There was no significant difference in the occurrence of respiratory events between the two groups (P=0.648).
DISCUSSION: The most common type of intraoperative event experienced by CHD patients during a non-cardiac surgery was cardiovascular events. Significantly more overall intraoperative events, including cardiovascular and other events, occurred in surgical encounters performed on CHD patients exhibiting single ventricle physiology than those encounters done on CHD patients with a non-single ventricle physiology. Results of this study suggest that it would be likely for CHD patients to have a cardiovascular event occur during non-cardiac surgery and that this may be more likely in patients with a single ventricle physiology. This study was subjected to the limitations of retrospective chart review, as well as missing and infrequent documentation. Future analysis will look to find correlations between the occurrence of intraoperative events, and demographic and procedure variables analyzed in this study. / 2017-06-16T00:00:00Z
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/16754 |
| Date | 17 June 2016 |
| Creators | Reddington, Elise Marie |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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