Karen Harrington

TL;DR: In this subgroup analysis of cardiac surgery patients, a restrictive red-cell transfusion strategy, as compared with a liberal one, was not associated with any significant difference in new or progressive multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, but this evidence is not definitive.

TL;DR: The epidemiology of anemia and RBC transfusion in hospitalized adults and children with cardiac disease, and on the outcome of anemic and transfused cardiac patients is reported.

TL;DR: Complications occurred in 41% of intubations after NIV failure in this series, and further research is warranted to evaluate strategies to prevent these complications and to identify conditions in which intubation should not be delayed for a trial of NIV.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the outcome of PICU survivors at the follow-up clinic of CHU Sainte-Justine 2 months after discharge, describing their physical and psychosocial morbidities.

TL;DR: Known concepts and current issues on the safety of patients, and their applicability to children with congenital cardiac disease are summarized and concepts to design successful programmes to improve safety for the patients on a local level are proposed.