The Peacock study: feasibility of the dynamic characterisation of the paediatric hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function during and after cardiac surgery

Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteriaInclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Age 0–5 or 10–16 years (as per recruitment groups outlined above)	Current or recent (within three months) use of glucocorticoids
Use of CPB for the cardiac surgery cohort	Emergency operation
Weight above 2 kg	Disorders of the HPA axis
	Thyroid disease

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