Diagnosis and management of the newborn with suspected congenital heart disease

Clin Perinatol. 2001 Mar;28(1):91-136. doi: 10.1016/s0095-5108(05)70071-3.

Abstract

In critical congenital heart lesions, the ultimate outcome depends on timely and accurate diagnosis of the structural anomaly, the evaluation and resuscitation of secondary organ damage, effective lesion-specific preoperative management, and the appropriate timing and type of surgery. Crucial to this process is continuous communication among medical, surgical, and nursing disciplines.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Critical Illness
  • Delivery, Obstetric
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / complications
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / diagnosis*
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / epidemiology
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Infant Mortality
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Intensive Care, Neonatal / methods*
  • Neonatal Screening / methods*
  • Patient Selection
  • Perinatal Care / methods*
  • Perioperative Care / methods*
  • Resuscitation / methods
  • Risk Factors
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal