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Pediatric cardiac emergencies: Children are not small adults

Compared with adults, cardiac emergencies are infrequent in children and clinical presentation is often quite variable. In adults, cardiac emergencies are most commonly related to complications of coronary artery disease; however, in pediatric cases, the coronaries are only rarely the underlying pro...

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Autores principales: Frazier, Aisha, Hunt, Elizabeth A, Holmes, Kathryn
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21633575
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.76842
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description Compared with adults, cardiac emergencies are infrequent in children and clinical presentation is often quite variable. In adults, cardiac emergencies are most commonly related to complications of coronary artery disease; however, in pediatric cases, the coronaries are only rarely the underlying problem. Pediatric cardiac emergencies comprise a range of pathology including but not limited to undiagnosed congenital heart disease in the infant; complications of palliated congenital heart disease in children; arrhythmias related to underlying cardiac pathology in the teenager and acquired heart disease. The emergency room physician and pediatric intensivist will usually be the first and second lines of care for pediatric cardiac emergencies and thus it is imperative that they have knowledge of the diverse presentations of cardiac disease in order to increase the likelihood of delivering early appropriate therapy and referral. The objective of this review is to outline cardiac emergencies in the pediatric population and contrast the presentation with adults.
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spelling pubmed-30975882011-06-01 Pediatric cardiac emergencies: Children are not small adults Frazier, Aisha Hunt, Elizabeth A Holmes, Kathryn J Emerg Trauma Shock Symposium Compared with adults, cardiac emergencies are infrequent in children and clinical presentation is often quite variable. In adults, cardiac emergencies are most commonly related to complications of coronary artery disease; however, in pediatric cases, the coronaries are only rarely the underlying problem. Pediatric cardiac emergencies comprise a range of pathology including but not limited to undiagnosed congenital heart disease in the infant; complications of palliated congenital heart disease in children; arrhythmias related to underlying cardiac pathology in the teenager and acquired heart disease. The emergency room physician and pediatric intensivist will usually be the first and second lines of care for pediatric cardiac emergencies and thus it is imperative that they have knowledge of the diverse presentations of cardiac disease in order to increase the likelihood of delivering early appropriate therapy and referral. The objective of this review is to outline cardiac emergencies in the pediatric population and contrast the presentation with adults. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3097588/ /pubmed/21633575 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.76842 Text en © Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097588/
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