Updates and News on Congenital Cardiac Care - January 2020

The Pulse - January 2020

The Pulse is a summary of relevant news and articles for Congenital Heart Professionals and highlights:

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Appropriate Use Criteria for Imaging of Congenital Heart Disease Patients: Key Points

Jan 06, 2020 | Timothy B. Cotts, MD, FACC

Google Alerts: American College of Cardiology

Multimodality Imaging During Follow-Up Care of Congenital Heart Disease

Google Alerts: American College of Cardiology

Cardiac Rehabilitation for Adults and Adolescents With Congenital Heart Disease

Google Alerts: NCBI

FUEL: Udenafil improves certain exercise performance after Fontan palliation in adolescents

Google Alerts: Healio

Teens with Heart Disease Improve Exercise Capacity in Large Clinical Trial

Google Alerts: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Gore agrees to supply artificial blood vessels for children

Google Alerts: Korea Biomedical Review

Prognostic value of perioperative NT-proBNP after corrective surgery for pediatric congenital heart ...

Google Alerts: BMC Pediatrics - BioMed Central

Improving fetal congenital heart disease screening using a checklist‐based approach

Google Alerts: Obstetrics and Gynecology

Obituary: Ralph Siewers / Longtime pediatric heart surgeon at Children's

Google Alerts: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Development and Utility of Quality Metrics for Ambulatory Pediatric Cardiology in Kawasaki Disease.

Google Alerts: eScholarship

Forward Thinking About Autism and Congenital Heart Disease

Google Alerts: AAP News

Children of malnourished moms are more vulnerable to congenital heart defects: Study

Google Alerts: Mumbai Mirror

Incidence of ESKD and mortality among children with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery

Google Alerts: MD Linx

Kids with heart rhythm problems more likely to have ADHD, anxiety and depression

Google Alerts: Coeur d'Alene Press

Intraoperative methadone is associated with decreased perioperative opioid use without adverse ...

Google Alerts: MD Linx

Can cells collected from bone marrow repair brain damage in babies with CHD?

Google Alerts: EurekAlert (press release)

Catheter Ablation in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease

Google Alerts: AHA Journals

Changing sport restrictions for pediatric congenital heart disease patients

Google Alerts: News-Medical.net

AHA 2019: Youths with cardiac arrhythmia more likely to have ADHD or depression

Google Alerts: Cardiac Rhythm News

New study aims to optimize brain development in babies with congenital heart disease

Google Alerts: News-Medical.net

Critical pediatric heart deaths drop by 24% at PC4 hospitals

Google Alerts: Medical Xpress

Preoperative Feeds in Ductal-Dependent Cardiac Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Google Alerts: AAP News

Intraoperative methadone is associated with decreased perioperative opioid use without adverse ...

Google Alerts: MD Linx

Physicians should consider HCQ to reduce the risk of recurrent congenital heart block

Google Alerts: EurekAlert (press release)

Estimating the prevalence of congenital heart disease among adolescents and adults in Colorado ...

Google Alerts: MD Linx

Neurodevelopmental Challenges of the Young Child with Congenital Heart Disease – Filling out ...

Google Alerts: AAP News

Case 1: Acute Respiratory Failure in a 1-month-old Girl

Google Alerts: AAP News

Case 2: Respiratory Failure and Multiple Organ System Dysfunction in a 7-day-old Infant

Google Alerts: AAP News

The American Heart Association ("AHA") Recognizes Mezzion's FUEL Trial as the Biggest Victory ...

Google Alerts: PRNewswire (press release)

Panel offers guidance on home oxygen therapy for children with chronic respiratory conditions

Google Alerts: AAP News

Management of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension After Correction of Congenital Heart Defect ...

Google Alerts: Springer Link

Children’s Hospitals Links

PCHA, children's hospitals unite to promote transparency in CV surgical outcomes

Google Alerts: Cardiovascular Business

Johns Hopkins All Children's rehires top surgeon to lead troubled heart program

Google Alerts: Becker's Hospital Review

Parents want mental health support to reduce stress of children's hospitalizations

Google Alerts: EurekAlert (press release)

Honor for city heart hospital

Google Alerts: SHINE

Mayo Clinic, Cincinnati Children's announce rare congenital heart defect collaboration

Google Alerts: Loveland Magazine

Troubled Children's Hospital Is Sued Over Toddler Who Died After Surgery

Google Alerts: The New York Times

Johns Hopkins celebrates 75 years since historic 'blue baby' operation

Google Alerts: The Hub at Johns Hopkins

Critical Pediatric Heart Deaths Drop by 24% at Hospitals With Cardiac ICUs

Google Alerts: Michigan Medicine (blog)

Children's Hospital Colorado uses telehealth to diagnose fetal heart disease

Google Alerts: Becker's Hospital Review

Science Links

Cytokinesis, Beta-Blockers, and Congenital Heart Disease

Google Alerts: NEJM.org

Additional Ventures Launches Comprehensive Initiative Focused on Innovation in Single Ventricle ...

Google Alerts: PRNewswire (press release)

Genes that drive the pathobiology of pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension

Google Alerts: MD Linx

PCHA, children's hospitals unite to promote transparency in CV surgical outcomes

Google Alerts: Cardiovascular Business

Health Academics and Politics Links

Mental Illness to Finally Be Covered Under Health Insurance, HIV/AIDS Still Excluded

Google Alerts: The Wire

Oversupply of Congenital Heart Surgery Programs Slammed

Google Alerts: MedPage Today

Calls Grow Louder to Regionalize Congenital Heart Surgery

Google Alerts: Medscape

News about the Congenital Heart Surgery Database and Public Reporting

Google Alerts: Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Children's Hospitals and Pediatric Congenital Heart Association Call for Transparency In Cardiac ...

Google Alerts: BioSpace (press release) (blog)

Hundreds of NI children with heart disease benefiting from cross-border care network

Google Alerts: Belfast Telegraph

Cardiomyopathy Links

FDA gives nod to first newborn screening test for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Google Alerts: BioWorld Online

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Appropriate Use Criteria for Imaging of Congenital Heart Disease Patients: Key Points

Jan 06, 2020 | Timothy B. Cotts, MD, FACC

Google Alerts: American College of Cardiology

Multimodality Imaging During Follow-Up Care of Congenital Heart Disease

Google Alerts: American College of Cardiology

Cardiac Rehabilitation for Adults and Adolescents With Congenital Heart Disease

Google Alerts: NCBI

FUEL: Udenafil improves certain exercise performance after Fontan palliation in adolescents

Google Alerts: Healio

Teens with Heart Disease Improve Exercise Capacity in Large Clinical Trial

Google Alerts: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Quality of Life in adults with congenital heart disease

Google Alerts: Erasmus MC

Early and Late Effects of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Google Al erts: AHA Journals

Better Transplant Outcomes in High-Volume Adult CHD Centers

Google Alerts: Medscape

General Interest Links

Cardiologs and Alven Collaborate To Develop New AI Diagnostics For Heart Disease

Google Alerts: TheHealthMania

Our most-read editorials of 2019

Google Alerts: Charlotte Observer

Top 25 Cardiology Videos on DAIC in 2019

Google Alerts: Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (press release) (blog)

Mum of twins with Down's syndrome is 'offered an abortion six times by doctors'

Google Alerts: Mirror.co.uk

The Children's Heart Foundation Funds New Research into Congenital Heart Defects

Google Alerts: PRNewswire (press release)

Media Advisory - Canadian Cardiovascular Congress gathers leading heart experts in Montreal to ...

Google Alerts: Benzinga

Hepatitis C-infected heart transplants can save lives, new statistics show

Google Alerts: KSAT San Antonio

The Mystery of Sudden Death Among Amish Is Finally Solved

Google Alerts: Nature World News

Implantable Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring Device in Patients with Palliated Congenital ...

Google Alerts: DocWire News (blog)

Applying AI to chest x-rays improves care for congenital heart disease

Google Alerts: AI in Healthcare

AHA News: Congenital Heart Disease Linked to Neighborhood Pollution, Poverty

Google Alerts: U.S. News & World Report

Letter: November is 22q Awareness Month

Google Alerts: State-Journal.com

Hydroxychloroquine Could Cut Recurrence of Congenital Heart Block in Half

Google Alerts: MD Magazine

Dr. Kurt Amplatz, pioneering Minnesota inventor of treatment tools, dies at 95

Google Alerts: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Nuvo Group Presents Positive Data Results For Remote Maternal-Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring At ...

Google Alerts: PRNewswire (press release)

Nike releases range of shoes for doctors and nurses to keep them comfortable during long shifts

Google Alerts: Metro

Abbott's TriClip reduces severity of tricuspid regurgitation in 86% of patients

Google Alerts: Cardiovascular Business

Consuming alcohol during pregnancy can leave the child exposed to the incurable Fetal Alcohol ...

Google Alerts: APN News

Charity for babies with heart conditions reveals 'tremendous' support inspired by Prince Harry and ...

Google Alerts: Daily Mail

New collaboration aims to provide solutions for patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Google Alerts: News-Medical.net

Top 10 specialties with the greatest pay increase in 2019

Google Alerts: Becker's ASC Review

SAPIEN 3 TAVI valve cleared for use in low-risk patients in Europe

Google Alerts: Cardiovascular Business

Imaging criteria for congenital heart disease released

Google Alerts: AuntMinnie

Heart Defect Follow-up: Some Imaging Doesn't Hit the Mark

Google Alerts: MedPage Today

Death index: Top 50 ways Americans die

Google Alerts: WDEF News 12

Machine Learning in Fetal Cardiology

Google Alerts: Figshare

Heartpedia App Review

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International Links

Aligarh Muslim University doctors' team attends conference

Google Alerts: India Education Diary

Death of 77 infants in month in govt. hospital rocks Kota

Google Alerts: The Hindu

14 Mongolian kids with heart disease to receive free treatment in China

Global Times

Irish-funded doctors in Ukraine preforming heart surgery on sick children

Google Alerts: Irish Examiner

Iranian child will journey to Oregon for life-saving surgical procedure, hospital says

Google Alerts: Wellston Journal

China striving to catch up in med-tech innovation for heart diseases

Google Alerts: BioWorld Online

Lixil Việt Nam helps with more children's heart surgeries

Google Alerts: Viet Nam News

Afghanistan- 61 Afghan Children Treated in China for Heart Disease

Google Alerts: MENAFN.COM

Udupi: KH performs 100 cardiac surgeries on children, neonatal successfully

Google Alerts: Daijiworld.com

Paediatric cardiac care in Bangladesh: what you need to know

Google Alerts: The Daily Star

Pediatric Cardiac Society of India 20th Annual Conference held in Nava Raipur

Google Alerts: Times of India

Israeli organisation to set up cardiology centre in Rwanda

Google Alerts: The New Times

Despite rising tide of birth defects, Fallujah shuns Iraq protests in fear of backlash

Google Alerts: Middle East Eye

Iraqi Children Born Near US Military Base Show Elevated Rates of “Serious Congenital Deformities ...

Google Alerts: The Intercept

Faulty AC in Mumbai's Sion hospital OT, no paediatric heart operation for three months

Google Alerts: Times of India

US Cardiac Surgeons Resume Trips To Russia To Perform Surgeries, Train Local Doctors

Google Alerts: UrduPoint News

Virtual cardiology follow-ups are a feasible alternative for pediatric cardiac conditions

Google Alerts: News-Medical.net

Health camp for congenital heart diseases held in Nizamabad

Google Alerts: Telangana Today

Human interest Stories

Youngest heart recipient at St. Louis Children's Hospital celebrates 30 years with donor heart

Google Alerts: KMOV.com

Public outcry after Tommy's heart surgery cancelled eight times

Google Alerts: New Ross Standard

Save Tinslee Lewis: 9-month old to be pulled off life support TODAY at Cook Children's Fort Worth

Google Alerts: NOQ Report

Boy asks mum heartbreaking question after surgery is cancelled for eighth time

Google Alerts: Mirror.co.uk

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January 2020 Issue North American Edition

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R eproductive Health in Females with CHD: Contraception, Preconception and Pregnancy

Thursday, February 13, 2020, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. EST

Presenters: Angeline Opina, MD, and Manisha Gandhi, MD

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Congenital Cardiac Nurses Association

The Congenital Heart Assessment Tool

The Congenital Heart Assessment Tool (CHAT) is an early warning tool for parents to use at home with their infant between first and second stage of surgery for complex congenital heart disease; enabling identification of normal infant behaviour and detection of signs of clinical deterioration. CHAT provides parents with information about when and who to call for management advice and support, enabling a structured system for articulation of concerns and potentially earlier intervention from the clinical team. This e-learning resource is aimed at healthcare professionals wishing to implement the CHAT within a package of parent preparation before discharge home with their infant.

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Childhood Immunization Recommendations in Congenital Heart Disease

This study is being conducted by researchers at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. For further information the study coordinator can be contacted via email [email protected].
All data will be collected into the secure REDCap database, housed at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada.

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CHIP Network Partner Organizations

Adult Congenital Heart Association

Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology

Asia Pacific Society for ACHD

Asia Pacific Pediatric Cardiac Society

British Congenital Cardiac Association Canadian Adult Congenital Heart Network

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Children's National Medical Center

Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society

Congenital Cardiology Today

Congenital Heart Surgeons Society

International Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Iranian Society of Pediatric Cardiology

Japanese Society for ACHD

Johns Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute

North American ACHD program

Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society

Pediatric Cardiac Society of India

Paediatric Cardiac Society of South Africa

Pan Arab Congenital Heart Disease Association

The Royal Brompton Hospital

Turkish Association of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

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