Abstract
During the past 12 years from 1967 to 1978, 166 infants with congenital heart disease under 12 months have undergone radical operation. There were 19 hospital deaths with a mortality rate of 16 per cent. Over one half of patients died in the first 3 months of life with a mortality rate 66%. The mortality rate for those from 4 to 6 months of age was 22.7% and for those from 7 to 12 months of age 9.3 per cent. Four of 6 patients under 3 months have undergone emergency radical operation for various diseases. Six (9.3 per cent) of 64 patients operated on after January 1,1975 died in the hospital, while 13 of 52 patients died in the hospital after operation during a period from 1967 to 1974. Most of the operations were performed under simple deep hypothermia, which is suitable for infants and children. To date, we think that simple deep hypothermia indicated for these patients is satisfactory for the procedure with the circulatory occlution time less than 70 minutes.
