Part I -- The Systems-Based ICU
1. Whole Brain Leadership for Creating Resonant Multidisciplinary Teams
2. Optimizing Care Delivery: Quality and Performance Improvement
3. Streaming Analytics in Pediatric Cardiac Care
4. How to Interpret and Use Outcome Data
5. The Pediatric Cardiac ICU Model
6. Selection, Training and Mentoring
7. Critical Care Databases and Quality Collaboratives
8. Improving Safety
9. Decision Making and Ethics
10. Advanced Nursing Practice in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
11. Family Needs and Expectations
Part II -- Basics
12. A Simplified Guide to Understanding the Anatomy of Congenital Heart Disease
13. Cardiac Physiology for Intensivists
14. Respiratory Physiology for Intensivists
15. Organ system response to cardiac function-Splanchnic
16. Organ system response to cardiac function-Renal
17. Organ system response to cardiac function-Neuro
18. Endocrine Function in Critical Heart Disease
19. Common Pharmocologic Agents
Part III - Special Considerations
20. Anesthesia and Sedation for Pediatric Heart Disease
21. Sedation, Sleep, Delirium and Rehabilitation
22. Monitoring Systems
23. Ventilators and ventilator strategies
24. Coagulation
25. Blood Utilization and Conservation
26. Nutrition and Metabolism in the Critically Ill Child with Cardiac Disease
27. Arrhythmias and Pacing
28. Inflammatory heart disease: Pericardial Effusion and Tamponade, Pericarditis and Myocarditis
29. The Fetus with Critical Heart Disease-Bridging to Birth
30. Low Birth Weight and other High Risk Conditions
31. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
32. The pediatric general surgeon and critically ill cardiac patient
33. Management of Common Post-Operative Complications and Conditions
Part IV -- Basics of Diagnostics and Clinical Care
34. Echocardiography in the Critically Ill Pediatric Patient
35. BEDSIDE ULTRASOUND IN THE PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
36. Imaging Modalities -- MRI and CT
37. The Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
38. Biomarkers in ICU Care of Congenital Heart Disease Patients
39. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
40. Ventricular Assist
41. Cardiopulmonary Bypass
42. Initial Management and Stabilization; ER transport
Part V -- The Defects
43. Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)
44. Vascular Rings and Pulmonary Artery Sling
45. Coarctation of the Aorta
46. Repair of Interrupted Aortic Arch with Ventricular Septal Defect
47. Atrial Septal Defects (ASD)
48. Total Anomalous Pulmonary venous connection
49. Ventricular Septal Defects (VSD)
50. AV Septal Defect
51. Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction
52. Mitral Valve Disease
53. Heart Disease and connective Tissue Disorders
54. AortoPulmonary (AP) Window; Hemitruncus
55. Truncus Arteriosus
56. Coronary Artery Anomalies
57. Transposition of the Great Vessels
58. Double Outlet Right Ventricle
59. Tetralogy of Fallot
60. Pulmonary Valve Replacement: Indications and Options
61. Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum (IVS)
62. Palliative Procedures: Deciding on clinical pathway; one vs. two ventricles
63. Fontan Procedure
64. Ebstein's Anomaly
65. Tricuspid Atresia
66. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
67. Heterotaxy
68. Arrhythmia Surgery
69. Congenitally Corrected Transposition
Part VI -- Medical Conditions
70. Infective Endocarditis
71. Pulmonary Hypertension
72. Heart Failure and Heart Failure Teams
73. Heart and Lung Transplantation
74. Pulmonary Embolism
75. Syndromes, genetics, heritable heart disease
76. Adult Congenital heart disease