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PCICS

PCICS promotes excellence in pediatric cardiac critical care medicine

PCICS Podcast

We discuss challenging or interesting pediatric cardiac ICU cases from a variety of PCICS affiliated institutions and have conversations with leaders in the field. Topics covered include innovative mechanical circulatory support strategies, novel ICU therapies, challenging perioperative management situations, and unusual complex congenital heart lesions in the ICU. Subscribe below via iTunes, Stitcher, and GooglePlay to get the latest episode.
Episode 36: PCICS Podcast – Growing Female Faculty in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
 		Host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Deanna Tzanetos (Norton Children’s Hospital), Co-Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego). Dr. Mary McBride (Lurie Children’s Hospital – Northwestern University) and Dr. Sushma Reddy (Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital – Stanford) speak about several important topics surrounding women building careers in cardiac critical care and academic medicine including balance, career development, pay inequity, and implicit gender bias. 
Episode 35: PCICS Podcast – Growing Physician Leaders in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care

 Host/Editor: Dr. Raj Sahulee (NYU – Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital), Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego). Dr. Mary Taylor, the Department Chair of Pediatrics at Children’s of Mississippi, speaks about important qualities for budding leaders in our field as well as different programs and ways to help foster growth as a leader in academic pediatrics. 
Episode 34: PCICS Podcast – PCICS Anthony Chang Award Lecturer Dr. Ravi Thiagarajan

 Host: Sarah Tabbutt, MD, PhD (UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital), Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego). The winner of this year’s Anthony Chang Award, Dr. Ravi Thiagarajan from Boston Children’s Hospital, speaks about his career, ECMO research, the changing cardiac ICU workforce, burnout, and his advice for early career cardiac intensive care providers.
Episode 33: PCICS Podcast – Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – Part 2

 Host: Courtney Celani, CPNP-AC (Lurie Children’s Hospital), Host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Saidie Rodriguez (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta), Producer: Dr. David Werho (UC San Diego). Part two of our series on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Shanelle Clarke, MD (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta), Maryam Naim, MD, MSCE (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), Carolyn Meltzer, MD (Emory University), Sarah Teele, MD (Boston Children’s Hospital), Keila Lopez, MD, MPH (Texas Children’s Hospital), and Kiona Allen, MD (Lurie Children’s Hospital).  
Episode 32: PCICS Podcast – Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – Part 1

 Host: Courtney Celani, CPNP-AC (Lurie Children’s Hospital), Host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Saidie Rodriguez (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta), Producer: Dr. David Werho (UC San Diego). In honor of Black History Month, PCICS presents a special two-part series on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; a group of inspiring women from across the country speak about various issues in medicine, pediatric cardiology, and critical care surrounding diversity, equity, and racism.  
Episode 31: Right Ventricular Heart Failure and Myocardial Energetics

 Host/Editor: Monica Mafla, RN, MS, CPNP (Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital – Stanford). Producer: Dr. David Werho (UC San Diego). Dr. Sushma Reddy (Stanford) discusses her work on myocardial energetics and how she’s working to understand the role of oxidative damage and potentially new therapeutics for right ventricular heart failure in patients with congenital heart disease. Her recent publication on this topic can be found in the October 2020 edition of Circulation. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.045470
Episode 30: PCICS Podcast – Newstalk January 2021

 Editor/Producer: Dr. David Werho (UC San Diego). In a new recurring format for the podcast, hosts David Werho, Jill Zender, and Saidie Rodriguez discuss recent events in pediatric cardiac critical care and anything else that comes up.  In this edition, guests Nikhil Chanani and Lindsey Justice, the program chairs for the first-ever virtual PCICS International Meeting discuss the highlights of the meeting as well as their pandemic guilty pleasures. 
Episode 29: Overview of Ventilation (Invasive and Noninvasive)

 Host: Dr. Sarah Tabbutt (UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital). Editor/Producer: Dr. David Werho (UC San Diego). Peter Rimensberger from Geneva, Switzerland and Stacey Bedford from London, UK discuss the varied practices for noninvasive and invasive mechanical ventilation in Europe. This was recorded at our last international meeting in London as a collaboration between PCICS, PICS-UK (now PCCS), and EPNCIC. Please register for our 2020 PCICS virtual meeting now for more great content! PCICS does not endorse specific devices or care practices.
Episode 28: One Fish, Two Fish, Not One VAD, But Two – A Story of Resilience

 Host/Editor: Dr. Raj Sahulee (NYU Langone – Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital). Producer: Dr. David Werho (UC San Diego). A multidisciplinary team from the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto discusses the story of a remarkable young girl’s resilience during her prolonged hospitalizations as well as the development of their Care By Parent protocol to allow VAD patients off the cardiac unit. This was recorded at our last international meeting in London as a collaboration between PCICS, PICS-UK (now PCCS), and EPNCIC. Please register for our 2020 PCICS virtual meeting now for more great content! Off-label use discussed – PCICS does not endorse specific devices or care practices.
Episode 27: Conversation with a Leader in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care: Eduardo da Cruz

 Host/Editor: Saidie Rodriguez, MD (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta). Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego). Eduardo da Cruz, MD from Children’s Hospital Colorado discusses the roles of innovation, collaboration, and new technologies in the future of pediatric cardiac critical care both locally and globally. This was recorded at our last international meeting in London as a collaboration between PCICS, PICS-UK (now PCCS), and EPNCIC.
Episode 26: Nurse Scientists Reducing Harm in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care

 Host/Editor: Monica Mafla, RN, MS, CPNP (Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital – Stanford). Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego) Sandra Staveski, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC from UC San Francisco College of Nursing and former PCICS President discusses her work and the work of other nurse scientists in pediatric cardiac critical care as well as the future of nurse-led research and collaboration in our field. 
Episode 25: COVID-19 and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

 Host: Dr. Sinai Zyblewski (MUSC). Editor/Producer: Dr. David Werho (UCSD) Dr. Eva Cheung from New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of Columbia University and Dr. Katherine Cashen from Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit discuss their experience on the front lines as MIS-C was first recognized and discuss our current knowledge of this disease. 
Episode 24: TAXI Transfusion Considerations in Pediatric Cardiac Patients Host/Editor: Saidie Rodriguez, MD
Producer: David Werho, MD		 Jill Cholette, MD from the University of Rochester and Steven Schwartz, MD from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto discuss the TAXI Transfusion Recommendations and considerations for blood transfusion in critically ill cardiac patients.
Episode 23: Chronic Pain in the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patient Host/Editor: Raj Sahulee, DO
Producer: David Werho, MD.		 Allie Rippe, NP and Alexandra Lamari-Fisher, PhD from the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, TX discuss the multidisciplinary and creative teamwork it took to address the organic and inorganic pain in an adult patient with single ventricle heart disease.
Episode 22: Quality Cardiac Care in Low Resource Settings Host/Editor: Saidie Rodriguez, MD.
Producer: David Werho, MD		 Dr. R Krishna Kumar from Amrita Hospital in India discusses his work bringing quality cardiac care to an area with limited resources as well as the global burden of heart disease in children.
Episode 21: Cardiac Arrest and Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Host/Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD Javier Lasa, MD from Texas Children’s Hospital discusses his work understanding cardiac arrest outcomes and acute decompensated heart failure and the future of these fields.

Episode 20: Comparing ATIII in Anticoagulated Patients

 Host/Editor: Deanna Tzanetos, MD.
Producer: David Werho, MD		 Lauren Haney, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCPPS from MUSC discusses her research comparing recombinant versus plasma-derived Antithrombin III. Note: Off-label pediatric use discussed – PCICS does not endorse specific clinical management.

Episode 19: The PCICS Advanced Practice Provider Curriculum

 Host/Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD Louise Callow, MSN, CPCP-PC and Lindsey Justice, DNP, CPNP-AC discuss the PCICS Advanced Practice Provider Curriculum including its development, progress, and plans for the future.

Episode 18: The PC4 Story – Past, Present, Future: Michael Gaies, MD, MPH, MSc

 Editor: Jill Zender, NP and Host/Producer: David Werho, MD Michael Gaies, MD, MPH, MSc, from The University of Michigan discusses the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) from its beginnings, to the recent landmark JACC publication, and into the future.

Episode 17: A Career Researching Long-Term Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiac Patients – Kathy Mussatto, PhD, RN

 Host: Sarah Tabbutt, MD, PhD
Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD		 Kathy Mussatto, PhD, RN, a nurse-scientist at Children’s Wisconsin, discusses her work on long-term outcomes, quality of life, and neurodevelopmental follow-up in pediatric cardiac patients.

Episode 16: Creating Healthy Work Environments for Critical Care Nurses and Physicians

 Host/Editor: Deanna Tzanetos, MD
Producer: David Werho, MD		 Dorrie Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN discusses her work on creating healthy work environments for physicians and nurses in critical care units.

Episode 15: Award Winning Abstract: Development of a Risk Score for Interstage Death or Transplant After Stage I Palliation for Single Ventricle Heart Disease

 Host: Mary Taylor, MD
Editor: Courtney Celani, APRN, PNP-AC
Producer: David Werho, MD		 Dr. Humera Ahmed discusses her best trainee abstract award winning project: Development of a risk score for interstage death or transplant after stage I palliation.

Episode 14: Contemporary Approaches to the Complex Single Ventricle Patient

 Host: Grace Bichara, MD
Guests: Joseph Forbess, MD, MBA & Can Yerebakan, MD
Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD		 Drs. Joseph Forbess and Can Yerebakan discuss their philosophies and approaches to the high-risk single ventricle neonate.

Episode 13: Cardiac Critical Care Pioneer: Dr. David Wessel

 Host: Sarah Tabbutt, MD, PhD
Guest: David Wessel, MD
Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD		 Sarah Tabbutt interviews David Wessel, a pioneer in our field, about his thoughts on training, leadership, wellness, and innovation in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care.

Episode 12: POSTER Program for Cardiac ICU Nursing Resiliency and Retention

 Host: Andrew Smith, MD, MSCI, MMHC. Editor: Deanna Tzanetos, MD, MSCI. Producer: David Werho, MD. Mary McLellan, MPH, BSN, RN, CPN (Boston Children’s Hospital) discusses the POSTER program to improve nursing resiliency & retention in the ICU.

Episode 11: Dr. Paul Checchia – 10 Years Until Retirement: 10 Myths to Disrupt

 Host: Mary Taylor, MD
Editor: Jill Zender, PNP-AC
Producer: David Werho, MD		 Dr. Paul Checchia (Texas Children’s Hospital) discusses his Anthony Chang lecture at the PCICS Meeting in 12/2018 including some hot topics and interesting myths in our field.

Episode 10: Surgical Site Infection Reduction QI Project

 Guest: Connie Myres, MSN, RN, CCRN, ACCNS-P. Host: David Hehir, MD. Editor: Courtney Celani, APRN, PNP-AC. Producer: David Werho, MD Connie Myres, MSN, RN, CCRN, ACCNS-P from the University of Michigan discusses their surgical site infection reduction QI project for patients after cardiac surgery.

Episode 09: Chest Tube Removal Quality Improvement Algorithm After Cardiac Surgery

 Guest: Rebecca Bertrandt, MD. Host/Editor: Deanna Tzanteos, MD. Producer: David Werho, MD Dr. Becky Bertrandt from Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin discusses a chest tube removal QI algorithm for patients after cardiac surgery.

Episode 08: Alkaline Phosphatase Infusion to Prevent Organ Injury After Circulatory Arrest

 Guest: Jesse Davidson, MD, MPH/MSPH. Host: David Werho, MD Dr. Jesse Davidson from Children’s Hospital of Colorado discusses a piglet model for cardiopulmonary bypass and its use to test alkaline phosphatase to mitigate organ injury after cardiac surgery.

Episode 07: Lymphatic Interventions for Plastic Bronchitis and Critical Care Considerations

 Guest: Aaron Dewitt, MD. Host/Producer/Editor: David Werho, MD. Dr. Aaron Dewitt from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia discusses the short- and long-term outcomes and post-procedure management of patients at the CHOP Lymphatic Intervention program.

Episode 06:
Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Pioneers

 Host: David Hehir, MD; Guest: Russel Raphaely, MD, Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD. Dr. David Hehir interviews Dr. Russell Raphaely at Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children about the history and development of our field.

Episode 05:
Machine Learning in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care

 Host: Deanna Tzanetos, MD, Editor: David Werho, MD. Guest: Dr. Mjaye Mazwi (Toronto Sick Kids). We discuss the role and future of machine learning in the Pediatric Cardiac ICU with Dr. Mjaye Mazwi.

Episode 04:
Southern Glenn followed by Northern Fontan

 Host: Mary Taylor, MD Editor: David Werho, MD. Guest: Ali Dodge-Khatami, MD, PhD (Children.s of Mississippi). Dr. Mary Taylor discusses “Reverse Order Staging of Single Ventricle Palliation Out of Necessity: Southern Glenn followed by Northern Fontan” with Dr. Ali Dodge-Khatami at Children’s of Mississippi.

Episode 03:
Interview with Parvathi and Krishna Iyer

 Host: Sarah Tabbutt, MD, Editor: David Werho, MD. Guests: Dr. Parvathi Iyer and Dr. Krishna Iyer (Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi). We discuss with Drs. Parvathi and Krishna Iyer the development of their pediatric cardiac surgical and ICU program in New Delhi.

Episode 02:
Ambulation on VA ECMO

 Host: David Werho, MD; Guests: Emily Weissler, MD and Vamsi Yarlagadda, MD (Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital); Producer: David Werho, MD. We discuss the strategies used to ambulate a pediatric patient with heart failure while on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support (VA ECMO) while waiting for heart transplant.

Episode 01:
Paracorporeal Device in Pulmonary Hypertension

 Host: David Werho, MD Guests: Monica Mafla, NP and Vamsi Yarlagadda, MD (Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital). We discuss the use of a paracorporeal support device to bridge a pediatric patient with pulmonary hypertension and RV failure to lung transplant.