2. Introduction
• CHD- most stressful situation/emergencies
• Often complex
• Coexisting pathology-heart lung interaction
• High mortality
• Early diagnosis and management –Key
4. Major Neonatal Cardiac Emergencies
Blue Baby Grey Baby Pink Baby
Cyanosis Shock Heart Failure Arrhythmias
HR issue
Duct dependent
Pulmonary circ
Duct dependent
Systemic circ
Left to right
shunt
Septicemia, respiratory disorders, persistent pulmonary hypertension of newborn, (PPHN),inborn errors of metabolism
and so on
5. 5 BASIC QUESTIONS TO BE
ANSWERED…
• 1. Is it a CHD??
• 2. If yes: Cyanotic or acyanotic??
• 3. Pulmonary Blood flow: Increased?
• 4. PAH: +/-??
• 5. Duct dependent lesion??
6. Cyanotic or acyanotic
• Clinically: nail beds/lips/tongue blue
• But if saturation between 85-93% the human eye cannot detect
cyanosis
• So, the gold standard of detection of cyanosis is PULSE OXIMETER
• Infact the pulse-ox is called the 5TH VITAL SIGN
12. Thoracoabdominal situs
Associated anomaly
Great Artery relationship
AV connections
Concordant, Discoradant,straddling, atresia
Cardiac position
Atrial situs
Ventricular Looping
Solitus/inversus/ambigous
Solitus/inversus/ambigous
Levo/Meso/Dextro
D Looped
L Looped
VA connections
Concordant, Discoradant/TGA, DORV
D malposition
L Malposition
Antero-posterior
24. Pulmonary veins
• Subcostal, suprasternal, apical
• Color Doppler: Distinguishes from atrial appendage
• 4 in number • Left 2 veins may join: 3 entries into LA
41. 50% rule
• For the assessment of AV connections, an atrium is considered to join
the ventricle into which >50% of the valve orifice empties
• This rule states that a chamber is a ventricle if it receives 50% more
of an inlet
• The rule of 50% has also been used to define VA connections
• Thus, if 50% or more of a great artery arises above a chamber, the
great artery is defined as being connected to that chamber