Clinical guidelines of the Spanish Society of Cardiology in congenital cardiopathy of the newborn

The use of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques is very important to ensure optimum, effective treatment in patients with heart disease to thereby obtain an adequate cost-benefit relationship. The aim of establishing guidelines for the evaluation and management is to achieve this relationship, but these guidelines are difficult to establish in pediatric cardiology despite 50 years of experience in this field. The physiopathologic peculiarities of newborns, in addition to the complex anatomical features of many heart diseases and their clinical presentation, diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties and the presence of residue, sequela and complications of the surgical technique make the elaboration of such guidelines at this age complex. Guidelines for some heart diseases are presented together with a descriptive analysis and a therapeutic schedule of other congenital heart diseases.

Published by Revista espanola de cardiologia, 2001. The guideline itself is at the source linked here.

doi.org/10.1016/s0300-8932(01)76264-1