Repeated bedside echocardiography in children with respiratory failure

Table 2 Distribution of patients into groups, echocardiographic findings and actual mortality

Etiology	N	Age	Exam/patient	Structural defects	Functional abnormalities	RAPM ratio
ALI/ARDS	103	1.08 ± 0.34	14.8 ± 1.23	7	35	0.58 ± 0.02
Asthma	8	5.70 ± 2.66	8.7 ± 1.77	0	1	0
BOA	53	1.82 ± 1.06	11.1 ± 1.48	2	7	0.53 ± 0.01
BPD	11	0.55 ± 0.22	17.6 ± 3.12	5	8	0.67 ± 0.03
ROSC	12	3.70 ± 1.12	17.7 ± 3.03	4	9	0.76 ± 0.01
CMP	9	4.79 ± 2.75	10.6 ± 2.36	0	6	0.61 ± 0.06
CPD	13	5.56 ± 1.38	12.9 ± 1.64	11	13	0.51 ± 0.04
Sepsis	26	2.47 ± 1.01	16.2 ± 0.97	2	7	0.46 ± 0.02
Summary	235	3.21 ± 1.32	13.7 ± 1.95	33	74	0.56 ± 0.02

N: number of patients in group, Age: average age in years ± SD; Exam/patient, the number of echocardiographic examinations per patient throughout the hospitalization, measured as mean ± SD, Structural defects: total number of structural congenital heart defects (i.e. ventricular outflow or inflow obstructions, left-right or right-left shunts, critical, complex and combined defects), Functional abnormalities: total number of functional abnormalities (tricuspid valve regurgitation > 15 mmHg or/and mitral regurgitation > 10 mmHg), RAPM ratio: Ratio of Actual to Predicted Mortality expressed as mean ± SD.

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