CRISP: catheterization RISk score for pediatrics: a report from the congenital cardiac interventional study consortium (CCISC)

OBJECTIVES:We sought to develop a scoring system that predicts the risk of serious adverse events (SAE's) for individual pediatric patients undergoing cardiac catheterization procedures. BACKGROUND: Systematic assessment of risk of SAE in pediatric catheterization can be challenging in view of a wide variation in procedure and patient complexity as well as rapidly evolving technology. METHODS: A 10 component scoring system was originally developed based on expert consensus and review of the existing literature. Data from an international multi-institutional catheterization registry (CCISC) between 2008 and 2013 were used to validate this scoring system. In addition we used multivariate methods to further refine the original risk score to improve its predictive power of SAE's. RESULTS: Univariate analysis confirmed the strong correlation of each of the 10 components of the original risk score with SAE attributed to a pediatric cardiac catheterization (P < 0.001 for all variables). Multivariate analysis resulted in a modified risk score (CRISP) that corresponds to an increase in value of area under a receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) from 0.715 to 0.741. CONCLUSION: The CRISP score predicts risk of occurrence of an SAE for individual patients undergoing pediatric cardiac catheterization procedures.

Standardizing Radiation Dose Reporting in thePediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory—AMulticenter Study by the CCISC (CongenitalCardiovascular Interventional Study Consortium)

We examine normalized air Kerma area product (PKA) by body weight(PKA/BW) as a reference value of radiation dose and benchmark PKA/BW in pediatriclaboratories using a multicenter registry database. Background: Reduction of radiationdose is an important quality improvement task in pediatric cardiac catheterizationlaboratories. Physicians need to agree on a standard method of reportingradiation dose that would allow comparisons to be made between operators andinstitutions. Methods: This was a multicenter observational study of radiation dosein pediatric laboratories. Patient demographic, procedural and radiation data includingfluoroscopic time and PKA (mGy m2) were analyzed. PKA/BW was obtained byindexing PKA to body weight. Results: A total of 8,267 pediatric catheterization procedures(age <18 years) were included from 16 institutions. The procedures consistedof diagnostic (n52,827), transplant right ventricular (RV) biopsy (n51,172),and interventional catheterizations (n54268). PKA correlated with body weight betterthan with age and best correlated with weight–fluoroscopic time product. PKA/BWshowed consistent values across pediatric ages. Interventional catheterizations hadthe highest PKA/BW (50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles: 72, 151, and 281 lGy m2/kg),followed by diagnostic (59, 105, and 175 lGy m2/kg) and transplant RV biopsy (27,79, and 114 lGy m2/kg). Conclusion: PKA/BW appeared to be the most reliablestandard to report radiation dose across all procedure types and patient age. We recommend PKA/BW to be used as the standard unit in documenting radiationusage in pediatric laboratories and can be used to evaluate strategies to lower radiationdosage in pediatric patients undergoing cardiac catheterizations.