Summer 2023 – Going Faster, Farther, Together
PCICS Leadership
Associate Editor’s Message
Medicine is a field of life-long learning—and perhaps nowhere is it better illustrated on a minute-by-minute basis than in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. What we know (and don’t know) is always changing. Fortunately, in this fast-paced world, who AND how we can ask for guidance and help is only growing. In the early…
Executive Message
I can’t believe we are already halfway into 2023! It seems like just yesterday that we were reunited in Miami. It was so nice to be in person again and finally meet in real life some of the people I have worked so closely with over the last 2-3 years. The virtual world was an…
Editorials
Improvement Through Collaboration: Inspiration and Growth through PC4
My involvement with the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) began in 2016 when Dr. Javier Lasa asked me to join him as a co-clinical champion at Texas Children’s Hospital. Over the past 7 years, the opportunity to be involved with PC4 on a local and consortium-wide level has granted me foundational insights that in…
How We Learn and the Medical Decisions We Make: Lessons From Learning Networks in Interventional Pediatric Cardiology
How many times per day do you make a medical decision about one of your patients? How many times is that decision based on data versus experience? And more importantly, how confident are you that your decision gave your patient the highest chance of the best outcome? For most clinicians, the amount of medical information,…
Mind Matters in the Cardiac ICU
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller In my 10 years as a cardiac intensivist, I have been amazed at the pace of change in patient volume and complexity, critical care technology, and the appetite for collaboration in pediatric heart disease. I have witnessed the dissolution of…
Committees and SIGs
Program Committee Update
The planning and coordination for the 2024 PCICS biennial meeting has begun in earnest. Earlier this…
Quality Committee Update
The PCICS Quality Committee will be offering formal QI project support to PCICS members starting…
Research Committee Update
The Scientific Innovations sub-committee of the PCICS Research Committee would like to announce an exciting…