The effect of postoperative ventilation strategies on postoperative complications and outcomes in patients with esophageal atresia: Results from the Turkish Esophageal Atresia Registry.

Hatice Sonay Yalçın Cömert Doğuş Güney Cigdem Ulukaya Durakbasa Hilmican Ulman Tutku Soyer Binali Fırıncı Ilhan Ciftci Mustafa Onur Öztan Berat Dilek Demirel Ayse Parlak Gülnür Göllü Ayşe Karaman İbrahim Akkoyun Cengiz Gül Hüseyin İlhan Akgün Oral Rahşan Özcan Önder Özen Gursu Kiyan Ali Onur Erdem Seyithan Özaydın Osman Uzunlu Abdullah Yıldız Basak Erginel Nazile Ertürk Salim BiliciHakan SamsumMehmet Ali Özen Esra Özçakır Emrah Aydın Mehmet Mert Murat Topbaş

Published in: Pediatric pulmonology (2022)

We demonstrated that patients who required invasive ventilation had a higher incidence of low birth weight and respiratory morbidity. We found no relation between mode of postoperative ventilation and surgical complications. Randomized controlled trials and clinical guidelines are needed to define the best type of ventilation strategy in children with EA/TEF.

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