Clinical databases and registries in congenital and pediatric cardiac surgery, cardiology, critical care, and anesthesiology worldwide

DF Vener, M Gaies, JP Jacobs… - World Journal for …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The growth in large-scale data management capabilities and the successful care of patients
with congenital heart defects have coincidentally paralleled each other for the last three …

Methodological standards for the design, implementation, and analysis of randomized trials in cardiac surgery: a scientific statement from the American Heart …

M Gaudino, J Chikwe, E Bagiella, DL Bhatt, T Doenst… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiac surgery presents specific methodological challenges in the design, implementation,
and analysis of randomized controlled trials. The purposes of this scientific statement are to …

[HTML][HTML] Methylprednisolone for heart surgery in infants—a randomized, controlled trial

KD Hill, PJ Kannankeril, JP Jacobs… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Although perioperative prophylactic glucocorticoids have been used for
decades, whether they improve outcomes in infants after heart surgery with cardiopulmonary …

[HTML][HTML] The pediatric heart network residual lesion score study: design and objectives

M Nathan, FL Trachtenberg, MI Van Rompay… - The Journal of Thoracic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives The Residual Lesion Score (RLS) was developed as a novel tool for
assessing residual lesions after congenital heart operations based on widely available …

Association of surgeon age and experience with congenital heart surgery outcomes

BR Anderson, AS Wallace, KD Hill… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Surgeon experience concerns both families of children with congenital heart
disease and medical providers. Relationships between surgeon seniority and patient …

Development of a multi-institutional registry for children with operative congenital lung malformations

SM Kunisaki, JM Saito, ME Fallat, SDS Peter… - Journal of pediatric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction The purpose of this study was to develop a multi-institutional registry to
characterize the demographics, management, and outcomes of a contemporary cohort of …

Rationale and design of the STeroids to REduce Systemic inflammation after infant heart Surgery (STRESS) trial

KD Hill, HS Baldwin, DP Bichel, RJ Butts… - American heart …, 2020 - Elsevier
For decades, physicians have administered corticosteroids in the perioperative period to
infants undergoing heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) to reduce the …

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons congenital heart surgery database: 2017 update on research

ML Jacobs, JP Jacobs, KD Hill, C Hornik… - The Annals of Thoracic …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database (STS CHSD) is the
largest congenital and pediatric cardiac surgical clinical data registry in the world. It contains …

The 2020 annual report of DataDerm: the database of the American Academy of Dermatology

MJ Van Beek, RA Swerlick, B Mathes, GJ Hruza… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - Elsevier
The American Academy of Dermatology launched DataDerm in 2016 as the clinical data
registry platform of the American Academy of Dermatology. DataDerm is approved by the …

Challenges to randomized trials in adult and congenital cardiac and thoracic surgery

M Gaudino, J Chikwe, E Bagiella, S Fremes… - The Annals of thoracic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Randomized trials in surgery face additional challenges compared with those in medicine.
Some of the challenges are intrinsic to the nature of the field (eg, issues with blinding …