With the advent
of and advancesin diagnostic methods and transcatheter and surgical treatment
modes, patients with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) are surviving longer.
Cardiac defects
that were once fatal in infancy are now treatable and patients
are surviving into adulthood. However, these patients are at increased risk
of acute events and therefore, likely to frequent emergency rooms.
These patients
should now be added to the group of CHD patients that would ordinarily come
thru’ the emergency rooms. Presented in this review is a selection of the more
common lifethreatening pediatric cardiac emergencies likely to be encountered
in the emergency department.
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