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. 2004 Mar 13;328(7440):611. doi: 10.1136/bmj.38027.613403.F6

Table 1.

Survival for neonates, infants, all children under 1 year, and children between 1 year and 16 years undergoing surgery or therapeutic catheterisation

Age No of procedures % survival at 30 days (99% CI) % survival at 1 year (99% CI)
All surgery (bypass and non-bypass)


All ages 3666 94.9 (94.5 to 95.1) 91.2 (90.6 to 91.5)
Neonate and infant: 2073 93.1 (92.4 to 93.4) 87.7 (85.2 to 89.8)
Neonate 780 90.9 (89.4 to 91.5) 86.1 (84.1 to 87.2)
Infant 1293 94.5 (93.6 to 94.7) 88.7 (87.4 to 89.4)
Child 1561 97.7 (97.0 to 97.7) 96.1 (95.4 to 96.2)
Bypass surgery
All ages 2664 94.7 (94.2 to 94.9) 91.8 (91.1 to 92.1)
Neonate and infant: 1292 92.1 (91.1 to 92.5) 87.8 (84.6 to 90.3)
Neonate 383 87.1 (84.3 to 88.4) 82.8 (79.4 to 84.8)
Infant 909 94.4 (93.3 to 94.7) 90.0 (88.4 to 90.6)
Child 1353 97.5 (96.8 to 97.5) 96.0 (95.1 to 96.1)
Non-bypass surgery
All ages 1002 95.5 (94.6 to 95.7) 89.7 (88.3 to 90.4)
Neonate and infant: 781 94.6 (93.4 to 94.9) 87.6 (83.4 to 90.8)
Neonate 397 94.7 (92.5 to 95.0) 89.3 (86.5 to 90.3)
Infant 384 94.6 (92.5 to 94.9) 85.9 (82.7 to 87.3)
Child 208 98.8 (95.0 to 98.8) 97.4 (93.2 to 97.5)
Catheter intervention
All ages 1828 99.1 (98.7 to 99.1) 98.1 (97.6 to 98.1)
Neonate and infant: 472 98.3 (96.7 to 98.3) 96.1 (92.5 to 97.9)
Neonate 178 98.8 (94.9 to 98.8) 97.3 (93.0 to 97.4)
Infant 294 98.0 (95.4 to 98.0) 95.3 (92.4 to 95.6)
Child 1320 99.4 (98.8 to 99.4) 98.8 (98.1 to 98.7)

Survival is calculated based only on cases where follow up reaches 30 days or one year and no further intervention has taken place. The Wilson score method was used to calculate 99% confidence intervals for survival.