Open AccessA review of the use of inhaled nitric oxide in the PICU at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, 2011-2015: A retrospective cohort study
Author(s) -
Soundrie Padayachee,
Shamiel Salie
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
southern african journal of critical care/the southern african journal of critical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2078-676X
pISSN - 1562-8264
DOI - 10.7196/sajcc.2021.v37i2.416
Subject(s) - medicine , ards , retrospective cohort study , pulmonary hypertension , paediatric intensive care unit , pediatric intensive care unit , nitric oxide , intensive care unit , cohort , cardiac surgery , refractory (planetary science) , persistent pulmonary hypertension , intensive care medicine , lung , physics , astrobiology
Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) functions as a selective pulmonary vasodilator. It is an expensive treatment that is often employed as rescue therapy for refractory hypoxaemia in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and pulmonary hypertension (PHT) following cardiac surgery.