Assessing enrollment of eligible infants in the national pediatric cardiology quality improvement collaborative (NPC-QIC) through linkage to the pediatric cardiac critical care consortium (PC4) registry.

Background: The National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPC-QIC) lacks a rigorous enrollment audit process, unlike other collaborative networks. Most centers require individual families to consent to participate. It is unknown whether there is variation across centers or biases in enrollment.

Contemporary Care and Outcomes of Critically-ill Children With Clinically Diagnosed Myocarditis.

Purpose: To describe contemporary management and outcomes in children with myocarditis who are admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) and to identify the characteristics associated with mortality.

Methods: All patients in the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC) registry between August 2014 and June 2021 who were diagnosed with myocarditis were included. Univariable analyses and multivariable logistic regression evaluated the factors associated with in-hospital mortality.

Fetal growth and gestational age improve outcome predictions in neonatal heart surgery.

Objective: Current risk adjustment models for congenital heart surgery do not fully incorporate multiple factors unique to neonates such as granular gestational age (GA) and birth weight (BW) z score data. This study sought to develop a Neonatal Risk Adjustment Model for congenital heart surgery to address these deficiencies.

Methods: Cohort study of neonates undergoing cardiothoracic surgery during the neonatal period captured in the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium database between 2014 and 2020.