Paediatric resident identification of cardiac emergencies.

Objectives: Critical CHD is associated with morbidity and mortality, worsened by delayed diagnosis. Paediatric residents are front-line clinicians, yet identification of congenital CHD remains challenging. Current exposure to cardiology is limited in paediatric resident education.

Health Equity and Policy Considerations for Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Care among Minoritized Populations in the United States.

Achieving health equity in populations with congenital heart disease (CHD) requires recognizing existing disparities throughout the lifespan that negatively and disproportionately impact specific groups of individuals. These disparities occur at individual, institutional, or system levels and often result in increased morbidity and mortality for marginalized or racially minoritized populations (population subgroups (e.g.

Improving Situational Awareness to Decrease Emergency ICU Transfers for Hospitalized Pediatric Cardiology Patients.

Introduction: Failure to recognize and mitigate critical patient deterioration remains a source of serious preventable harm to hospitalized pediatric cardiac patients. Emergency transfers (ETs) occur 10-20 times more often than code events outside the intensive care unit (ICU) and are associated with morbidity and mortality. This quality improvement project aimed to increase days between ETs and code events on an acute care cardiology unit (ACCU) from a baseline median of 17 and 32 days to ≥70 and 90 days within 12 months.

Caregiver and provider attitudes toward family-centred rounding in paediatric acute care cardiology.

Family-centered rounding has emerged as the gold standard for inpatient paediatrics rounds due to its association with improved family and staff satisfaction and reduction of harmful errors. Little is known about family-centered rounding in subspecialty paediatric settings, including paediatric acute care cardiology.In this qualitative, single centre study, we conducted semi-structured interviews with providers and caregivers eliciting their attitudes toward family-centered rounding.

The Heart of the Matter: A Path to Building Diversity in Pediatric Cardiology.

Our essay discusses the impact of underrepresentation in medical training, with a focus on pediatric cardiology. We use the perspective of a physician who is underrepresented in medicine (URiM), and has chosen to pursue a career in pediatric cardiology, to initiate an analysis of the current path toward pediatric cardiology and the factors in undergraduate and graduate medical education which could currently be optimized to improve diversity in training. We argue that a lack of diversity among physicians leads to worse patient outcomes, and we describe steps to improve representation in the field.