Factors Associated with Intensive Care Unit Admission Following Elective Cardiac Catheterization in Children without a Recent History of Cardiac Surgery or Major Noncardiac Comorbidities.

As pediatric cardiac catheterization procedures become more complex, critically ill children increasingly require postprocedure intensive care unit (intensive care unit) admissions.

The primary aim was to evaluate the association between patient demographics and intensive care unit admission after elective cardiac catheterization in children without recent surgery or pre-existing systemic illness (acute renal failure, hepatic failure, active infection).