Use of a Large Bore Syringe Creates Significantly Fewer High Intensity Transient Signals (HITS) Into a Cardiopulmonary Bypass System Than a Small Bore Syringe

Prophylactic Corticosteroids for Paediatric Heart Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Corticosteroids  probably do not change the risk of mortality for children having heart surgery using CPB at any time point. They probably reduce the duration of postoperative ventilation in this context, but have little or no effect on the total length of postoperative ICU stay or total postoperative hospital stay.