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The Congenital Heart Center offers the enormous resources needed when treating serious heart defects, including all levels of care and one-to-one patient/nurse ratios.
Cardiac Neonatal Intensive Care -- Many babies require surgery within hours of birth. A highly specialized team of neonatologists, with subspecialties in neonatal cardiac care, provides care to newborns with such life-threatening conditions as transposition of the great arteries, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and complex left ventricular obstruction. Our 24/7 physician coverage is supported by advanced practice nurses and nurse practitioners whose care is exclusively devoted to neonates.
Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Medicine -- The Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) serves the needs of critically ill infants, children and adolescents. This specialized unit is staffed by a highly skilled team of intensivists with multiple subspecialties, including anesthesiology, pediatric cardiology, pediatric cardiovascular surgery, critical care, and pulmonology. The care of patients in the CICU is directed by both pediatric critical care physicians and pediatric cardiologists, with surgical patients managed in close consultation with our cardiothoracic surgical staff and a team of critical care nurses with advanced training. We also manage the perioperative care of patients undergoing heart and lung transplants.
The CICU staff are experts in the management of the most advanced support technology: ECMO, high-frequency oscillatory ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide, continuous renal replacement therapies such as CVVH (continuous veno-venous hemofiltration), and neurologic monitoring, including continuous EEG and ventricular assist devices, one of the few institutions in the world offering such technology to the smallest children.
