Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27220493›Full record

ArticlePediatric surgery international2016

Effect of timing of cannulation on outcome for pediatric extracorporeal life support.

Katherine W Gonzalez, Brian G A Dalton, Katrina L Weaver, Ashley K Sherman, Shawn D St Peter, Charles L Snyder

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Pediatric surgery international, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Katherine W GonzalezDepartment of Surgery, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas, MO, 64108, USA.
Brian G A DaltonDepartment of Surgery, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas, MO, 64108, USA.
Katrina L WeaverDepartment of Surgery, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas, MO, 64108, USA.
Ashley K ShermanDepartment of Statistics, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas, MO, USA.
Shawn D St PeterDepartment of Surgery, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas, MO, 64108, USA.
Charles L SnyderDepartment of Surgery, Children's Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas, MO, 64108, USA. csnyder@cmh.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeLiterature reports worse outcomes for operations performed during off-hours. As this has not been studied in pediatric extracorporeal life support (ECLS), we compared complications based on the timing of cannulation..

methodsThis is a retrospective review of 176 pediatric ECLS patients between 2004 and 2015. Patients cannulated during daytime hours (7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M., M-F) were compared to off-hours (nighttime or weekend) using t-test and Chi-square.

resultsThe most common indications for ECLS were congenital diaphragmatic hernia (33 %) and persistent pulmonary hypertension (23 %). When comparing regular hours (40 %) to off-hours cannulation (60 %), there were no significant differences in central nervous system complications, hemorrhage (extra-cranial), cannula repositioning, conversion from venovenous to venoarterial, mortality on ECLS, or survival-to-discharge. The overall complication rate was slightly lower in the off-hours group (45.7 % versus 61.9 %, P = 0.034).

conclusionOutcomes were not significantly worse for patients undergoing ELCS cannulation during off-hours compared to normal weekday working hours.

Indexed as

AdolescentCatheterizationChildChild, PreschoolCongenital AbnormalitiesExtracorporeal Membrane OxygenationFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleRetrospective StudiesTime FactorsCannulationExtracorporeal membrane oxygenationOutcomesTiming

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.