Spring 2022: Entrusting Learners
PCICS Leadership
Editor’s Message
As we all settle into a phase of the COVID-19 pandemic with less social restrictions, we hold out hope that the pandemic is near its end. As such, PCICS is planning an in-person annual conference in Miami, Florida this December. As part of the Program Committee this year, I can say that the conference this…
Executive Message
The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts!! -Aristotle And just like that, it’s Spring!!! As I write this and look outside my window at the last vestiges of Winter, I long for summer as I have all year long. The difference now is that we are truly in the home stretch –…
Editorials
Assessing Our Trainees in the CICU
In the United States, the delivery of critical care to cardiac patients is quite heterogeneous and the units in which these patients receive their care can vary from dedicated cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) to mixed pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) to specialized neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), and no two units are exactly the…
Guest Editorial: Caring for Tiny Hearts! Training Physicians in Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care
Perspective from Mirjana Cvetkovic, MD, Training Director, Paediatric Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom. “What do you do?” “I am a Paediatric Cardiac Intensivist.” The question opens a longer conversation: “How do you become one?” “How did I actually become one?!” In United Kingdom (UK) as in the rest of the Europe,…
Guest Editorial: The Road to Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care in the Netherlands
The Netherlands, also known as ‘Holland’ with its famous capital Amsterdam, is a small country in Western Europe which fits 231 times in the United States. It is however 12 times more densely populated compared to the USA (424 versus 34 inhabitants/km2) with 17.5 million inhabitants of whom 3.5 million are children. Nationwide, approximately 4…
Guest Editorial: Incremental Innovation in the Medical Education of Pediatric Cardiac Intensivists
Hector Wong, a passionate pioneer of pediatric critical care and a kind mentor to countless physicians including myself, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away at the start of this year1,2. While much of his expansive research body focused on pediatric sepsis, a less-cited work of his is a 2015 treatise on innovation in pediatric cardiac intensive…
Committees and SIGs
Program Committee Update
Co-Chairs: Christin Diller and Jason Buckley The Program Committee continues to work on finalizing the…
Advanced Practice Provider Special Interest Group (SIG) Update
The PCICS Advanced Practice Provider (APP) SIG continues to meet monthly, networking with APPs across…
Early Career and Fellow Special Interest Group (SIG) Update
Dear PCICS family, The Early Career and Fellow Special Interest Group was formed in 2021…
Quality Improvement and Safety (QI-S) Committee Update
Our PCICS Quality Improvement and Safety (QI-S) Committee is looking forward to another productive year!…
Research Committee Update
Current research committee leadership includes co-chairs: Jamie Penk and Anna Fisk. The sub-committee chairs are…
Education Committee Update
The PCICS Education Committee has some exciting new updates to announce. Lillian Su, MD completed…
Finance Committee Update
The Finance Committee would like to welcome their newest members, Michael-Alice Moga MD, Josh Blinder…
Program Committee Update
Co-Chairs: Christin Diller and Jason Buckley The Program Committee continues to work on finalizing the…
Institutional Members Feature
Atrium Health The Congenital Heart Center, established in 2010, has been ranked as one of…