Neonatal cardiac emergency: early detection and management

摘要

Congenital heart disease (CHD) in global perspectives contributes a significant proportion of neonatal death as a part of high rate of infant mortality . Around 7% of all neonatal deaths are attributable to major congenital malformations of which at least 25% are due to severe forms of CHD or categorized to critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) 1The critical congenital heart disease is defined as a group of patients with CHD which present a significant symptoms in the neonatal period and are almost lethal without early detection and recognition with effective treatment. This group of patients consist of all "duct dependent lesions", complexs abnormalities and obstructed form of total anomalies of pulmonary venous drainage. Duct dependent lesions compromised of ductus dependent pulmonary defects and ductus dependent systemic defects.