Echocardiography in the care of the premature infant with patent ductus arteriosus.

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Title Echocardiography in the care of the premature infant with patent ductus arteriosus.
Publication Type thesis
School or College School of Medicine
Department Family & Preventive Medicine
Author Lofgren, David Nils.
Date 1979-06
Description Patient records of 235 premature infants with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) were examined in a retrospective study. Patients admitted prior to the use of the echocardiogram for diagnosis of PDA were compared to patients admitted after the introduction of the test. Patients admitted after the use of the echocardiogram showed mortality improved from 0.355/PDA to 0.172/PDA. At the time of the introduction of the test, surgical ligation as a therapeutic measure dropped from 3.05/mothes to 0.85/month. Length of time from admission to discharge and admission to diagnosis declined. Mean cost per patient day decreased $14.13 in PDA patients. Infants who went to surgery showed birth weights decrease by 325.99 grams and time from diagnosis to surgical ligation increased by 6.89 days. Although causality may not be implied, there exists a strong association between the introduction of the echocardiogram and the quantification of the severity of the PDA, and in the improvements seen in these measures of the quality of care. It is concluded that echocardiography may have been influential in improving the physician's care of the premature infant with PDA.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Ductus Arteriosus, Patent
Subject MESH Infant, Premature; Echocardiography
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MPH
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Echocardiography in the care of the premature infant with patent ductus arteriosus." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Echocardiography in the care of the premature infant with patent ductus arteriosus." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RC 39.5 1979 L64.
Rights Management © David Nils Lofgren.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier us-etd2,78
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
ARK ark:/87278/s6q24dtz
Setname ir_etd
ID 192953
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q24dtz
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