14.2 Early Extubation in Infancy and Early Childhood Following Heart Surgery: Outcome Analysis and Predictors of Failure

Previous research has shown that, in adult cardiac patients, early extubation (EE) decreases length of stay in the ICU and hospital. Since EE has not been evaluated in the pediatric cardiac populations, we sought to study the perioperative clinical outcomes of EE in children ≤6 years old following cardiac surgery.