caa a22 4500 44582591X CHVBK 20180317145259.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00246-011-9925-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00246-011-9925-8 Patent Ductus Arteriosus in the Preterm Infant: A Survey of Clinical Practices in French Neonatal Intensive Care Units [Elektronische Daten] [Olivier Brissaud, Julie Guichoux] Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is one of the most common problems in the care of premature infants, especially the extremely premature. There is no real consensus regarding the diagnostic criteria or treatment of a hemodynamically significant PDA. Its diagnosis, assessment, and treatment still remain challenges. Therefore, we investigated clinical practices in French tertiary neonatology centers regarding the management of PDA to compare their similarities and differences. We sent a questionnaire by email to the PDA specialist in every French tertiary neonatal intensive care unit. It contained 27 items regarding the unit's structure, method of diagnosing PDA, and treatment choices. The completed questionnaire were returned via email and analyzed blindly. The questionnaire response rate was 87.5%, which allowed us to draw some conclusions regarding French clinical practices in the care of neonates with PDA. Although the diagnostic criteria are quite similar, the therapeutic practices are rather different across neonatal care units. We highlight the great variability in French clinical practices when it comes to treating PDA and underscore the necessity for harmonization of these practices, which could be achieved using multicenter, randomized studies to identify the advantages of one approach compared with another. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Patent ductus arteriosus nationallicence Ibuprofen nationallicence Indomethacin nationallicence Surgical ligation nationallicence Neonatal intensive care unit nationallicence Brissaud Olivier Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Bordeaux Teaching Hospital, 33076, Bordeaux Cedex, France aut Guichoux Julie Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Bordeaux Teaching Hospital, 33076, Bordeaux Cedex, France aut Pediatric Cardiology Springer-Verlag 32/5(2011-06-01), 607-614 0172-0643 32:5<607 2011 32 246 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00246-011-9925-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00246-011-9925-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brissaud Olivier Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Bordeaux Teaching Hospital, 33076, Bordeaux Cedex, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Guichoux Julie Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Bordeaux Teaching Hospital, 33076, Bordeaux Cedex, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Pediatric Cardiology Springer-Verlag 32/5(2011-06-01), 607-614 0172-0643 32:5<607 2011 32 246 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer