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01.04.2004 | Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care
Recombinant activated factor VII in paediatric cardiac surgery
Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine | Ausgabe 4/2004
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Objective
To review the use of recombinant activated factor VII in paediatric cardiac surgery.
Design
Retrospective chart review.
Setting
Paediatric intensive care unit in a stand-alone university-affiliated children’s hospital.
Patients and participants
Cardiac surgical patients who received recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa, NovoSeven; NovoNordisk, Copenhagen, Denmark) between June 2002 and June 2003 at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
Results
Six children undergoing cardiac surgery received rFVIIa. Recombinant activated factor VII was administered if bleeding was excessive and persisted despite appropriate investigation and attention to haemostasis by surgical and medical staff. An intravenous dose of 180 µg/kg was given and repeated 2 h later. All of the six patients responded well to rFVIIa with achievement of haemostasis. No adverse events were noted.
Conclusions
Recombinant activated factor VII achieved haemostasis in six paediatric cardiac surgical patients. Good outcomes and no adverse events were noted in these children.