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Summer 2022: A Whole New World of CICU

PCICS Leadership

Associate Editor’s Message: Critical Care Without Borders

Kriti Puri, MBBS, FACC, FAAP

I am delighted to welcome y’all to the Summer 2022 edition of the PCICS Newsletter. Summer travel this year has been impacted by the high prices, long lines at the airports, and staff shortages across the airline industry (we all know a thing or two about understaffing). However, worry not – our Editorial team is…

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President’s Message

Melissa B. Jones MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC

Summer has arrived here in DC and in just 6 months, we’ll be heading to Miami Beach for our PCICS Annual Meeting, December 14-18, 2022 (in person!).  I remember feeling like I had found the epicenter of pediatric cardiac critical care after attending my first PCICS meeting.  The collective expertise of the presenters and attendees…

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Editorials

Borderless CICU

Grace van Leeuwen, MD, FSCAI

Until very recently, the exchange of experiences and knowledge between Cardiac Intensive Care Units (CICU) has been limited. While this has improved for many in wealthy countries, this type of collaboration remains uncommon in low- and middle-income countries, limited mainly to conferences and some publications with international collaboration. To interact with the editors of the…

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Congenital heart surgery at high altitude – Should we re-analyze the data?

Alexis Palacios-Macedo MD
Orlando Tamariz-Cruz MD
Héctor Díliz-Nava MD

There is not a single definition of high altitude. In High-Altitude or Mountain Medicine, ‘high altitude’ is defined as 1500 to 3500m above sea level, with ‘very high altitude’ defined as that between 3500m and 5500m, and ‘extreme altitude’ as that above 5550m. But common practice has been to refer to ‘high altitude’ as any…

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Nursing Editorial: Development of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Program at PGIMER, Chandigarh, India – Sustained Advocacy, Teamwork, and Global Collaborations are Keys to Success

Unnikrishnan VS
Rajarajan Ganesan MD, DM

The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, is a government-funded tertiary care academic hospital in the Northern region of India. The specialty care services provided by the hospital cover a population of nearly 100 million spread over more than five administrative subdivisions of the country. The first pediatric cardiac surgery was performed…

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Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Tahir Heart Institute

Muhammad AK Nuri, MD

Pakistan is the fifth most populated country in the world with an estimated population of 220 million1.  Currently, the country spends only 1.9% of its GDP on health. The estimated number of children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) in Pakistan is approximately 40,000-50,000 per year based upon assumed birth prevalence and annual birth rate….

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Committees and SIGs

PCICS CNS/Educator SIG Update

Lisa McCabe

The PCICS CNS/Educator SIG continues to provide an opportunity for networking and a forum for…

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Nutrition SIG Update

Kristi Fogg MS, RD, LDN
Lindsay Lock MS, RD

The PCICS Nutrition SIG began meeting in the fall of 2021 and has grown to…

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Program Committee Update

Christin Diller, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC
Jason Buckley, MD

The PCICS program committee continues its diligent work to plan the in-person PCICS Annual Meeting…

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Quality Improvement-Safety Committee Update

Dana Mueller MD
Melissa Winder, NP

2022 is flying by! Our PCICS Quality Improvement and Safety (QI-S) Committee’s three sub-committees (Education,…

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Institutional Members Summer 2022

Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute was formed in 2008 with the mission…

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