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Achieving resonance in a programme for congenital cardiac surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2005

Redmond P. Burke ,
Evan M. Zahn  and
Anthony F. Rossi
Redmond P. Burke
Affiliation:
Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
Evan M. Zahn
Affiliation:
Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
Anthony F. Rossi
Affiliation:
Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA
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In 1995, Miami Children's Hospital recognized an institutional problem with its programme providing surgical treatment for congenital cardiac malformations. There was a high rate of mortality for neonatal surgery, and no patients had survived attempted first stage palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The hospital enlisted nationally recognized consultants in congenital cardiac surgery and cardiology to review the existing programme, and to make recommendations for improvement. Based on these recommendations, a new team was recruited. The recruits were a young attending surgeon, an interventional cardiologist, and a cardiac intensivist, attracted from recognized centers of excellence in Boston and Toronto.

Type
Norwood Procedure and Staged Palliation
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 14 , Issue S1 , February 2004 , pp. 75 - 82
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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