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Mavroudis C, Backer CL, Brown JW, Williams WG. The Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society Presidents and Their Contributions. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2023; 14:559-571. [PMID: 37737595 DOI: 10.1177/21501351231181331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/23/2023]
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The Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS) was founded by 16 congenital heart surgeons in 1973, who endeavored to share their clinical advances in an informal setting that would stimulate honest and forthright discussions. As the Society grew, prospective studies were organized from a centralized data center that was established and based first in Birmingham, Alabama, thence to Toronto, and recently in a collaboration between Toronto and the Cleveland Clinic. These studies formed the basis for a myriad of outcomes reports that favorably impacted surgical results. The Kirklin-Ashburn Fellowship was created and endowed by the membership which has been successful in training many congenital heart surgeons. The CHSS was then incorporated into a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization with bylaws, officers, and committees in 2002. Increased membership followed. The CHSS has become the face of congenital heart surgery in North America by affiliating with the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, having one designated member on the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and hosting joint meetings with the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association. Since 2002, 11 presidents have been elected for two-year terms and have guided the advances that have been achieved by the CHSS. Their contributions and achievements are highlighted in chronological order.
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- Constantine Mavroudis
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Peyton Manning Children's Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Section of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, UK HealthCare Kentucky Children's Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Woods A, Shofner C, Hodge B. International pediatric surgery partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping literature review. Glob Health Action 2022; 15:2111780. [PMID: 36047712 PMCID: PMC9448389 DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2022.2111780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces a critical shortage of pediatric surgical providers. International partnerships can play an important role in pediatric surgical capacity building but must be ethical and sustainable. Objective The purpose of this study is to perform a scoping literature review of international pediatric surgery partnerships in SSA from 2009 to 2019. We aim to categorize and critically assess past partnerships to aid in future capacity-building efforts. Methods We performed a scoping literature review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines. We searched the PubMed and Embase databases for articles published from 2009 to 2019 using 24 keywords. Articles were selected according to inclusion criteria and assessed by two readers. Descriptive analyses of the data collected were conducted in Excel. Results A total of 2376 articles were identified. After duplicates were removed, 405 articles were screened. In total, 83 articles were assessed for eligibility, and 62 were included in the review. The most common partnership category was short-term surgical trip (28 articles, 45%). A total of 35 articles (56%) included education of host country providers as part of the partnership. Only 45% of partnerships included follow-up care, and 50% included postoperative outcomes when applicable. Conclusions To increase sustainability, more partnerships must include education of local health-care providers, and short-term surgical trips must be integrated into long-term partnerships. More partnerships need to report postoperative outcomes and ensure follow-up care. Educating peri-operative providers, training general surgeons in common pediatric procedures, and increasing telehealth use are other goals for future partnerships.
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- Alison Woods
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Global Education Office, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA
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Condition notification assisted by virtual reality technology reduces the anxiety levels of parents of children with simple CHD: a prospective randomised controlled study. Cardiol Young 2022; 32:1801-1806. [PMID: 34991769 DOI: 10.1017/s104795112100500x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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PURPOSE This study explored the effects of condition notification based on virtual reality technology on the anxiety levels of parents of children with simple CHD. METHODS The subjects of the study were the parents of 60 children with simple CHD who were treated in our centre. The state anxiety scale was used to assess the anxiety status of the parents of the children before and after the condition notification in different ways (based on virtual reality explanations and written explanations). RESULTS In this study, a total of 55 parents of children with CHD successfully completed the survey. At the time of admission, there was no significant difference in the state anxiety scale scores of the parents between the two groups. The anxiety status of the virtual reality group was relieved after the condition notification assisted by virtual reality technology, and there was a significant difference compared with the control group. CONCLUSION Condition notification based on virtual reality technology can effectively alleviate the anxiety of parents of children with simple CHD, which is worthy of clinical application.
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Screening and diagnostic imaging at centres performing congenital heart surgery in middle-income countries. Cardiol Young 2022; 33:780-786. [PMID: 35684953 DOI: 10.1017/s1047951122001731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND Surgical care for CHD is increasingly available in low- and middle-income countries, and efforts to optimise outcomes are growing. This study characterises cardiac imaging and prenatal diagnosis infrastructure in this setting. METHODS An infrastructure survey was administered to sites participating in the International Quality Improvement Collaborative for CHD. Questions regarding transthoracic, transesophageal and epicardial echocardiography, cardiac CT, cardiac magnetic resonance, prenatal screening and fetal echocardiography were included. Associations with in-hospital and 30-day mortality were assessed. RESULTS Thirty-seven sites in 17 countries responded. Programme size and geography varied considerably: < 250 cases (n = 13), 250-500 cases (n = 9), > 500 cases (n = 15); Americas (n = 13), Asia (n = 18), and Eastern Europe (n = 6). All had access to transthoracic echo. Most reported transesophageal and epicardial echocardiography availability (86 and 89%, respectively). Most (81%) had cardiac CT, but only 54% had cardiac magnetic resonance. A third reported impediments to imaging, including lack of portable machines, age/size-appropriate equipment and advanced cardiac imaging access and training. Only 19% of centres reported universal prenatal CHD screening in their catchment area, and only 46% always performed fetal echocardiography if screening raised concern for CHD. No statistically significant associations were identified between imaging modality availability and surgical outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Although access to echocardiography is available in most middle-income countries; advanced imaging modalities (cardiac CT and magnetic resonance) are not always accessible. Prenatal screening for CHD is low, and availability of fetal echocardiography is limited. Imaging infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries and associations with outcomes merits additional study.
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Tretter JT, Jacobs JP. Global leadership in paediatric and congenital cardiac care: "global health advocacy, lift as you rise - an interview with Liesl J. Zühlke, MBChB, MPH, PhD". Cardiol Young 2021; 31:1549-1556. [PMID: 34602114 DOI: 10.1017/s104795112100411x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Professor Liesl Zühlke is the focus of our fifth in a series of interviews in Cardiology in the Young entitled, "Global Leadership in Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care". Professor Zühlke (nee Hendricks) was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She would attend medical school in her hometown at University of Cape Town, graduating in 1991. Professor Zühlke then went on to complete a Diploma in Child Health at College of Medicine in Cape Town followed by completion of her Paediatric and Paediatric Cardiology training in 1999 and 2007, respectively. She would subsequently complete her Masters of Public Health (Clinical Research Methods) at the University of Cape Town, completing her dissertation in 2011 on computer-assisted auscultation as a screening tool for cardiovascular disease, under the supervision of Professors Landon Myer and Bongani Mayosi.Professor Zühlke began her clinical position as a paediatric cardiologist in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa in 2007. In this role, she has been instrumental in developing a transitional clinic at the paediatric hospital, is a team member of the combined cardio-obstetric and grown-up congenital heart disease clinics, each of which are rare in South Africa, with very few similar clinics in Africa. Professor Zühlke would continue her research training, completing her Doctorate at the University of Cape Town in 2015, with her dissertation on the outcomes of asymptomatic and symptomatic rheumatic heart disease under the supervision of Professor Bongani Mayosi and Associate Professor Mark Engel. In 2015, in affiliation with the University of Cape Town and the Department of Paediatrics and the Institute of Child Health, she established The Children's Heart Disease Research Unit, with the goals to conduct, promote and support paediatric cardiac research on the African continent, facilitate Implementation Science and provide postgraduate supervision and training in paediatric cardiac research. In 2018, she would subsequently complete her Master of Science at the London School of Economics in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management of cardiovascular sciences. Professor Zühlke currently serves as the acting Deputy-Dean of Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town.Professor Zühlke has achieved the highest leadership positions within cardiology in South Africa, including President of the Paediatric Cardiac Society of South Africa and President of the South African Heart Association. She is internationally regarded as a leader in research related to rheumatic heart disease. Professor Zühlke's work includes patient, family and health advocacy on a global scale, being involved in the development of policies that have been adopted by major global organisations such as the World Health Organization. In addition to her clinical and research efforts, she is highly regarded by students, colleagues and graduates as an effective teacher, mentor and advisor. This article presents our interview with Professor Zühlke, an interview that covers her experience as a thought leader in the field of Paediatric Cardiology, specifically in her work related to rheumatic heart disease, Global Health and paediatric and congenital cardiac care in resource-limited settings.
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- Justin T Tretter
- The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Congenital Heart Center, UF Health Shands Children's Hospital, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Cardiology in the Young, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
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Stellin G, Tchervenkov CI, Jonas RA, Jacobs ML. In Memoriam: Aldo R. Castañeda, July 17, 1930 - April 30, 2021. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2021. [PMID: 34278854 DOI: 10.1177/21501351211024538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- Giovanni Stellin
- Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, 9308University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Cardiac Surgery, Center for Neuroscience Research, 8404Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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- 1466Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA This article has been copublished in the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and in Cardiology in the Young
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Tchervenkov CI, Herbst C, Jacobs JP, Al-Halees Z, Edwin F, Dearani JA, Finucane K, Sandoval N, Sarris GE, Fragata J, Abdulgani HB, Arboleda M, Bacha EA, Barron DJ, Becker P, Boumzebra D, Cervantes J, Elgamal A, Helvind MH, Iyer KS, Jatene MB, Jun TG, Kirklin JK, Kreutzer C, Lee C, Lotto AA, Manuel V, Maruszewski B, Najm H, Overman D, Rahmat B, Reddy D, Sakamoto K, Samankatiwat P, Sivalingam S, St Louis JD, Stellin G, Stephens EH, Tretter JT, Truong NLT, Tweddell JS, Vida V, Vosloo S, Zhang H, Zheleva B, Jonas RA. Current Status of Training and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery Around the World: Proceedings of the Meetings of the Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2021; 12:394-405. [PMID: 33942697 DOI: 10.1177/21501351211003520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The optimal training of the highly specialized congenital heart surgeon is a long and complex process, which is a significant challenge in most parts of the world. The World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS) has established the Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery as a nonprofit organization with the goal of assessing current training and certification and ultimately establishing standardized criteria for the training, evaluation, and certification of congenital heart surgeons around the world. The Global Council and the WSPCHS have reviewed the present status of training and certification for congenital cardiac surgery around the world. There is currently lack of consensus and standardized criteria for training in congenital heart surgery, with significant disparity between continents and countries. This represents significant obstacles to international job mobility of competent congenital heart surgeons and to the efforts to improve the quality of care for patients with Congenital Heart Disease worldwide. The purpose of this article is to summarize and document the present state of training and certification in congenital heart surgery around the world.
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- Christo I Tchervenkov
- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, 10040The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, 27271Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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- Heart Center, 37852King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- National Cardiothoracic Centre, Accra, Ghana.,University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fundacion Cardioinfantil-Instituto de Cardiologia, Bogota, Colombia
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- Cardiothoracic Surgery, Santa Marta Hospital, NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular (INCOR), Lima, Peru
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- Department of Surgery, Section of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Columbia University New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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- Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Cardiovascular Surgery Unit, Mohamed VI University Hospital, Marrakech, Morocco
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiac and Congenital Heart Surgery, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Mansoura University Children's Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt
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- Department of Congenital Heart Surgery, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery, Fortis-Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Cardiovascular Surgery, Clinica Girassol, Luanda, Angola
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- Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery Division, National Cardiovascular Center, Harapan Kita, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Fuji Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
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- Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Heart Center, National Children's Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Shanghai Children's Medical Center and National Medical Center, Shanghai, China
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- Cardiac Surgery, Center for Neuroscience Research, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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Vervoort D, Zheleva B, Jenkins KJ, Dearani JA. Children at the Heart of Global Cardiac Surgery: An Advocacy Stakeholder Analysis. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2021; 12:48-54. [PMID: 33407026 DOI: 10.1177/2150135120955189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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One in a hundred babies, or 1.3 million per year around the world, are born with congenital heart defects (CHD), of which over 70% will require medical or surgical treatment within their first year of life. In low- and middle-income countries, the majority does not receive the treatment they need or receive suboptimal care. Despite a higher pediatric cardiac surgical disease burden, low-income countries only have 0.07 pediatric cardiac surgeons per million pediatric population, compared to 9.51 per million in high-income countries. Here, we perform a stakeholder analysis of existing advocacy bodies within the field of pediatric global cardiac surgery and identify gaps and opportunities in advocating for cardiac care for children with CHD. We propose a framework to optimize civil society messaging in order to more effectively advocate domestically and internationally to hold national and international policy makers accountable for existing gaps and disparities in CHD care around the world.
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- Dominique Vervoort
- 222464Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, 1862Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, 6915Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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2019 Presidential Address of The Southern Thoracic Surgical Association: "WHY". Ann Thorac Surg 2021; 111:1420-1434. [PMID: 33545154 DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.11.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Improving preoperative risk-of-death prediction in surgery congenital heart defects using artificial intelligence model: A pilot study. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0238199. [PMID: 32886688 PMCID: PMC7473591 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Background Congenital heart disease accounts for almost a third of all major congenital anomalies. Congenital heart defects have a significant impact on morbidity, mortality and health costs for children and adults. Research regarding the risk of pre-surgical mortality is scarce. Objectives Our goal is to generate a predictive model calculator adapted to the regional reality focused on individual mortality prediction among patients with congenital heart disease undergoing cardiac surgery. Methods Two thousand two hundred forty CHD consecutive patients’ data from InCor’s heart surgery program was used to develop and validate the preoperative risk-of-death prediction model of congenital patients undergoing heart surgery. There were six artificial intelligence models most cited in medical references used in this study: Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), Random Forest (RF), Extra Trees (ET), Stochastic Gradient Boosting (SGB), Ada Boost Classification (ABC) and Bag Decision Trees (BDT). Results The top performing areas under the curve were achieved using Random Forest (0.902). Most influential predictors included previous admission to ICU, diagnostic group, patient's height, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, body mass, arterial oxygen saturation, and pulmonary atresia. These combined predictor variables represent 67.8% of importance for the risk of mortality in the Random Forest algorithm. Conclusions The representativeness of “hospital death” is greater in patients up to 66 cm in height and body mass index below 13.0 for InCor’s patients. The proportion of “hospital death” declines with the increased arterial oxygen saturation index. Patients with prior hospitalization before surgery had higher “hospital death” rates than who did not required such intervention. The diagnoses groups having the higher fatal outcomes probability are aligned with the international literature. A web application is presented where researchers and providers can calculate predicted mortality based on the CgntSCORE on any web browser or smartphone.
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St Louis JD, Tchervenkov CI, Jonas RA, Sandoval N, Zhang H, Jacobs JP, Talwar S, Halees ZA, Finucane K, Kirklin JK. Proceedings From the 3rd Symposium of the World Database for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2019; 10:492-498. [PMID: 31307301 DOI: 10.1177/2150135119852320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The World Database for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery was created to provide a resource for centers to be able to perform complex outcomes analyses of children undergoing repair of a congenital heart defect. In just under two years, the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS) has amassed over 13,000 procedures from 55 centers into the database. This Proceedings of the 3rd World Database Symposium held at the 6th Scientific Meeting of the WSPCHS summarizes the presentations of international experts in the fields of outcomes analysis and care of children with congenital heart surgery.
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- James D St Louis
- 1 Division of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Mercy-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- 2 Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- 3 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- 4 Instituto de Cardiopatías Congénitas, Fundacion Cardioinfantil-Insituto de Cardiologia, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- 5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, National Center for Children Health, Shanghai, China
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- 6 Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children, John Hopkins University, Saint Petersburg, Tampa, Orlando, FL, USA
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- 7 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Sarıoğlu T, Erek E, Yalçınbaş YK. Why national databases are necessary for pediatric and congenital heart surgery practice? TURK GOGUS KALP DAMAR CERRAHISI DERGISI 2019; 27:418-422. [PMID: 32082900 PMCID: PMC7021427 DOI: 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2019.17945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 05/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In international experience, performance improvement, patient safety, and quality assurance are mainly based on database studies in the field of pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery. Data collection and analysis of the databases allow the clinician to identify the complexity, to predict possible risks and complications, and to appropriately evaluate the outcomes and performances. Recently, the Children"s Heart Foundation Working Group has developed a database project in Turkey based on the parameters and methodologies of the international databases, namely the Pediatric Heart Surgery National Database. Currently, it is a must for us to put this project into practice to reach the global standards in the pediatric and congenital heart surgery in our country. We believe that all children with congenital heart disease should have an opportunity to benefit from the most recent medical and surgical treatment modalities with the most favorable results.
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- Tayyar Sarıoğlu
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University, Istanbul, Turkey
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St Louis JD, Timkovich N, Lenderman S, Jonas RA, Guleserian KJ, Tchervenkov CI, Jacobs JP, Austin EH, Plunkett MD, Myers JL, Hraska V, Sinha P, O'Brien JE, Jacobs ML, Kirklin JK. The World Database for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery "A Call to Service for North American Congenital Heart Surgery Programs". Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2019; 31:230-233. [PMID: 30616005 DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2019.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery has endorsed the establishment of an international platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience for those that treat patients with a congenital heart defect. On January 1, 2017, the release of the World Database for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery opened a new era in evaluation of treatment with congenital heart defects. The contribution of data from countries with established congenital surgical databases will greatly enhance the efforts to provide the most accurate measure of overall surgical outcomes across the globe.
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- James D St Louis
- Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri.
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Cardiovascular of Surgery, Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children, John Hopkins University, Saint Petersburg, Tampa, and Orlando, Florida
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- University of Louisville, Norton Children's Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky
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- Congenital Heart Center at Children's Hospital of Illinois, Peoria, Illinois
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- Penn State Children's Hospital, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Herma Heart Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's National Medical Center, Washington DC
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- Department of Surgery, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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