PCICS Podcast

Please join this heartfelt discussion with our specials guests Louise Callow, NP (C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital) winner of the 2022 PCICS Patricia Hickey Award for Excellence in Pediatric Cardiovascular Nursing and Lara Shekerdemian, MD (Children’s Texas Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine) winner of the 2022 PCICS Anthony C. Chang Award for Excellence in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care. Co-hosts...

Join Host Monica Mafla MS, PNP-AC and guests Jean Storey MS, RN, NEA-BC (Children's Health Dallas) and Kim Ortmeyer BSN, RN, CCRN (Levine Children's) as they discuss bedside nursing and strategies to keep RNs at the bedside. Host: Monica Mafla MS, PNP-AC (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford) Editor/Producer: Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD, MSCI (Norton Children's Hospital/U of Louisville)

Collaborative Research from the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Investigators (CoRE-PCICS). Dr. Chris Mastropietro (Riley Children's Hospital/Indiana University) and Dr. Katie Cashen (Duke) discuss what CoRE-PCICS is and a review of the Intermediate Outcomes after ALCAPA Repair project. Host, Editor, and Producer: Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD, MSCI (Norton Children's Hospital/University of Lo...

Interview with Dr. Katsuhide Maeda MD PhD (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) and John Dykes MD (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital) about the history and current state of VAD support for single ventricle patients. Co-Hosts: Monica Mafla MS, PNP-AC (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford) and Amy Romer MD (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia). Editors: Monica Mafla MS, PNP-AC, and Lillian S...

World Congress Overview - On this special collaborative episode with the PediHeart Podcast, Dr. Gil Wernovsky, meeting chair for the 8th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, gives us an exciting overview of this historic meeting. Find out more about the meeting at www.wcpccs2023.org. Hosts: Deanna Tzanetos, Jill Zender, Saidie Rodriguez, Lillian Su. Host/Editor/Producers: Ro...

Kyle Claussen, the CEO of Resolve, joins us to discuss considerations, tips, and lessons-learned for physicians and APPs going through contract negotiations, including how to make sure you are treated fairly, how to set yourself up for success in this confusing process, DEI considerations, and the most important things to look for in a contract. Co-hosts: Saidie Rodriguez, MD (Emory University), J...

Join us for this recap of our December 2022 PCICS meeting in Miami. Hear about the science, community, and important team contributions to our field, including the important role of the patient's family and the bedside nurse. Several guests join us to discuss all the things they learned and how they might change their practice. Guests: Christin Diller, Jason Buckley, Bistra Zheleva, Casey Bor. Hos...

Join special guest Chris Fundora a financial advisor and director of retirement planning for Traphagan CPAs and Wealth Advisors to hear information regarding estate and retirement planning. Co-Hosts: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego), Saidie Rodriguez, MD (Emory University), Jill Zender, CPNP-AC (Children's Medical Center of Dallas) Editor/Producer: Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD, MSCI (Norton Children's H...

Doctors Therese Giglia (CHOP) and Rebecca Bertrandt (Children's Wisconsin) discuss the care of interstage patients including interstage hospitalization versus home discharge, feeding approaches, anticoagulation and the challenges therein. Co-Hosts: Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD, MSCI (Norton Children's Hospital/U of Louisville) and Jill Zender, CPNP-AC (Children's Medical Center of Dallas). Editor/Prod...

Resuscitation experts Dr. Tia Raymond (Medical City Children's Hospital) and Dr. Robert Sutton (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) speak to us all about resuscitation science, high quality CPR, and the past, present, and future of CPR research in pediatrics. Host: Leigh Mohler, MSN, PCNS-BC, CCRN (Children’s Hospital of Orange County), Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego).

Join us to hear about a nursing education and leadership development partnership with Guests: Anna Fisk, PhD, RN, CCRN, Clinical Coordinator CICU (Boston Children’s/Harvard) and Bistra Zheleva, VP of Global Strategy and Advocacy, Children’s HeartLink (NGO). Host/Editor/Producer: Saidie Rodriguez, MD (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory Univ).

Dr. Niranjan Vijayakumar (Boston Children's Hospital) discusses "Current Epidemiology of Vocal Cord Dysfunction After Congenital Heart Surgery in Young Infants" and Dr. Julina Ongkasuwan (Texas Children's Hospital) discusses detection and management of vocal cord dysfunction in cardiac patients. Host/Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD (Rady Children's Hospital). The article discussed can be found he...

Our special guest, Melissa Jones, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC (Children's National Medical Center), speaks to us about her time as president of PCICS and her vision for the society's future. Co-Hosts: Dr. Saidie Rodriguez (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta), Dr. Lillian Su (Phoenix Children's Hospital), Jill Zender, CPNP-AC (Children’s Medical Center of Dallas). Co-Host, Editor, Producer: Dr. David Werho (R...

Episode 69: Coaching and Human Factors Awareness: One way to improve multidisciplinary team performance. Guests: Dr. Ross Ungerleider; Dr. Jamie Ungerleider Co-Host: Dr. Saidie Rodriguez (Children’s Healthcare of Atl/Emory Univ SOM). Co-Host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Deanna Todd Tzanetos (U of Louisville SOM/Norton Children's Hospital)One way to improve multidisciplinary team performance. Guests: Dr. R...

A frank and refreshing conversation on the giving and receiving of feedback. Guests: Dr. Lillian Su (Phoenix Children’s Hosp/Univ of Arizona College of Medicine), Dr. Mary McBride (Lurie Children’s/Northwestern Univ), and Dr. Michel-Alica Moga (Hospital for Sick Kids/Univ of Toronto). Host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Saidie Rodriguez (Children’s Healthcare of Atl/Emory Univ SOM).

Dr. Judith Mathieu (Icahn SOM Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital) and Dr. Raj Sahulee (NYU Grossman SOM Hassenfeld Children's Hospital) discuss an interesting case of aortic thrombus in a neonate after arch repair. Hosted/Edited by: Raj Sahulee, MD. Producer: Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD, MSCI (U of Louisville SOM Norton Children's Hospital)

Dr. Aarti Bavare and Dr. Natasha Afonso (Texas Children's Hospital) discuss their work in creating a cardiac-specific rapid response team and their efforts leading a PCICS Special Interest Group for cardiac rapid response teams. Their work can be read here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951121003322. Hosted by Jill Zender, APRN, CPNP-AC (Children's Health, Dallas). Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD...

We are joined by special guest, Dr. Jeffrey Alten (Cincinnati Children's Hospital) to discuss the PC4 Cardiac Arrest Prevention project, from inception to dissemination and everything in between. The manuscript was published in JAMA Pediatrics on 7/5/2022. Hosted by Leigh Mohler, MSN, PCNS-BC, CCRN (Children's Hospital of Orange County). Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego). View the ar...

We are excited to share another episode from our PCICS Advanced Trainee Journal Club with all our listeners. In this episode, Dr. Felicia Sifers from Children's of Alabama presents a discussion of "Sotalol versus Amiodarone for Postoperative Junctional Tachycardia after Congenital Heart Surgery". The article is linked below Host/Editor/Producer: David Werho, MD (UC San Diego). https://doi.org/10.1...

Luminary Interview with Paul Checchia, MD During the 2020 PCICS conference, snips of an inaugural Luminary Interview series were shared between sessions. Listen to the full interview here with seminal leaders in pediatric cardiac intensive care reflecting on their careers of over 20 years. Special Guest: Paul Checchia, MD (Texas Children's Hospital) and Host: Mary McBride, MD (Lurie Children's Hos...

Enjoy hearing the origin story of how Michigan’s Congenital Heart Center and why it’s collaborative culture has been a key to its success with special guest, pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Rick Ohye (C.S. Mott Children’s Hosp/Univ Michigan). Host Lillian Su, MD (Phoenix Children’s Hosp/Univ of Arizona College of Medicine). Co-Host/Editor/Producer: Saidie Rodriguez, MD (Children’s Healthcare...

Explore medicine of the future with two Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeons and pioneer researchers. Drs. Sunjay Kaushal (Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago) and Jolanda Kluin (Academic Medical Center; Amsterdam, Netherlands) discuss stem cell therapies for single ventricle patients, tissue engineering for heart values and a soft robotic heart. Co-Hosts: Deanna Tzanetos, MD (Norton Children’s Hosp...

Join us for part 2 of a 3-part series on extracorporeal life support (ECMO). Part 2 will cover an overview of ECMO circuit components and management of patients supported on ECMO. This episode is directed to those who have some exposure to ECMO but not extensive experience. Special guests at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford include: Kate Ryan, MD; Director of Cardiac ECMO; Associate...

Listen to this fascinating discussion and article review of “Workforce demographics and unit structure in pediatric cardiac critical care in the US” with first and senior authors Robin Horak (Children's Hospital Los Angeles) and Catherine Krawczeski (Nationwide Children’s Hospital). Hosted by Neha Purkey (Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital) and Saidie Rodriguez (Children’s Hospital of Atlanta). Ed...

Episode 58: PCICS Journal Club - Delirium in the CICU We are excited to begin a new series of podcasts sharing our PCICS Advanced Trainee Journal Club with all our listeners. In this episode, Dr. Mike Mount from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta presents a discussion of "Delirium in a Tertiary Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Risk Factors and Outcomes". The article is linked below and the sli...