Posts Tagged ‘Guest Editorial’
Unanswered Questions in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
“Where is the next PH crisis lurking?” – This question may flash past your awareness as you prepare to sit down for the first time during your night shift in…
Read MoreManaging Severe Pulmonary Hypertension In The ICU: The St. Louis Children’s Hospital Experience
While the last 30 years has seen remarkable progress in treating children with pulmonary hypertension (PH), children still die from their disease, most often from right ventricular (RV) failure in…
Read MoreIntegrating Pulmonary Hypertension Teams into the Pediatric Cardiac ICU: A Collaborative Approach to Emerging Challenges
Our field demands increasingly collaborative work across specialties in cardiology, critical care, anesthesia, and cardiac surgery. Complementing this comprehensive approach, the integration of pulmonary hypertension (PH) teams into pediatric cardiac…
Read MorePediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: A Shift in Perspective
Pediatric intraluminal pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a rare and challenging disease characterized by wall thickening from neo-intimal proliferation leading to luminal narrowing of one or more pulmonary veins. Once…
Read MoreCoaching combats burnout and foster academic growth to promote sustainable careers
Pediatric cardiac critical care is a highly specialized field dedicated to the care of infants and children with congenital or acquired heart disease requiring intensive medical attention. The complexities of…
Read MoreBuilding and Sustaining Advanced Practice Careers in the CICU
It takes a certain type of person to thrive in the high-acuity environment in pediatric cardiac intensive care units (PCICU). The fast-paced, ever-evolving field is appealing to new graduate advanced…
Read MoreCVICU Faculty Sustainability – Methods to Prevent Burnout and Improve Longevity
Pediatric cardiac intensive care has emerged as a distinct specialty over the last fifty years with significant medical, surgical and technological advancements and increasingly complicated patients. While a career in…
Read MoreCan We Save Patients and Protect the Planet? Environmental Sustainability in the Intensive Care Unit
In our personal lives, we make conscious decisions to help protect our natural environment. We recycle, we garden, we drive electric vehicles. Yet, in our professional lives, we often fail…
Read MoreAI in the CICU: From Theaters to Monitors
The medical artificial intelligence revolution is coming and it will not be televised. It might show up on your new virtual reality headset, but even if it doesn’t, it will…
Read MoreAI is Knocking at the CICU Door
Hollywood has led us to believe that artificial intelligence (AI) belongs in the world of Michael J. Fox and a DeLorean. But AI is no longer confined to the silver…
Read MorePerspectives of a Future Cardiac Intensivist on the World Congress
In August, I had the opportunity to attend the 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Washington, D.C. As an early trainee, the conference was spectacular: from…
Read MoreWorld Congress Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (WCPCCS) – Nursing
Nursing representation and participation at the WCPCCS was a huge success, with nearly 1,000 nurses attending the conference. This was the biggest gathering of pediatric cardiac nurses to date. The…
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