Special Considerations in Critical Care of the Congenital Heart Disease Patient.
Can J Cardiol
; 39(4): 544-557, 2023 04.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2317620
ABSTRACT
Outcomes of congenital heart disease have improved markedly over the past 20 years, with survival to adulthood now close to 90%. The mean age of admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) is 40 years. The incidence of hospital and critical care admissions have increased significantly as a consequence of this improved survival. Intensivists are now confronted with the management not only of complex adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) lesions from a cardiac perspective, but also of extracardiac organ consequences of years of abnormal circulation after surgical or palliative correction. Kidney and liver dysfunction and respiratory and hematologic abnormalities are very common in this population. ACHD patients can present to the ICU for a vast number of reasons, classified in this review as medical noncardiac, medical cardiac, and surgical. Community/hospital-acquired infections, cerebrovascular accidents, and respiratory failure, alongside arrhythmias and heart failure, are responsible for medical admissions. Surgical admissions include postoperative management after correction or palliation, but also medical optimisation and work-up for advanced therapies. ICU management of this large heterogeneous group requires a thorough understanding of the pathophysiology in order to apply conventional adult critical care modalities; left ventricular or right ventricular dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension, intracardiac, extracardiac, and palliative surgical shunts can be present and require additional consideration. This review focuses on the pathophysiology, long-term sequelae, and different treatment modalities to supply a framework for the ICU physician caring for these patients. Successful outcome, especially in complex lesions, depends on early involvement of specialised ACHD centres.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Heart Defects, Congenital
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Heart Failure
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Can J Cardiol
Journal subject:
Cardiology
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.cjca.2023.01.016
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