Posts Tagged ‘Guest Editorial’
Safe at Home
December 2020 marks the ten-year anniversary of Safe at Home (SAH), the interstage home monitoring program at Children’s Health Dallas’ Heart Center. Interstage is defined as the period between stage…
Read MoreA Note to My Future Self
This past weekend, I supervised a non-surgical trainee in the CVICU placing a thoracostomy pigtail catheter in a 6.8kg infant for pneumothorax. The patient was levocardic and the pneumo right-sided,…
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Role of point-of-care coagulation
diagnostic laboratory for pediatric intensive care units
Pediatric patients undergoing cardiac procedures are at risk for bleeding and thrombosis complications. Until recently, anticoagulation and blood product management has been guided by relatively arcane diagnostic tests – platelet…
Read MoreSteps and Stairs
It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs. – Vance Havner In May 2019, the New…
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