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Filter by:At least 12% of children have a chronic disease that requires regular medical follow-up after patients reach legal maturity. This international study aims to provide prospective evidence for improving health and wellbeing outcomes in this population. The primary hypothesis is that transition readiness will be more strongly associated with adherence to follow-up, fewer emergency visits and continued education than disease severity or chronological age. The secondary hypothesis is that positive experiences of care will be associated with lower levels of anxiety. Positive care experiences and low anxiety will predict better health-related quality of life during the transition period. A cohort of 504 young patients will be followed for three years. Patients have been recruited from pediatric hospitals 0-12 months prior to the transfer of care and follow-up will be completed after the patients have been followed for two years in adult healthcare.
This feasibility study will assess whether a 6-month, home-based, parent-led physical activity program, completed after surgical or catheterization treatment, enables young children with congenital heart defects (CHD) to achieve the recommended 180 minutes of daily physical activity. This study includes comprehensive measures of motor skill and physical activity, intervening at a very young age, and targeting the high risk status for sedentary lifestyles of children with CHD. This study will provide essential data on patient recruitment, data collection procedures, the proposed physical activity intervention and resources required to enable the design of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate play-based, parent-delivered interventions optimized to support age-appropriate physical activity and motor skills among young children with CHD.
In this three-party collaboration, which includes The Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, the Value Institute for Health and Care, and the Design Institute for Health, all from University of Texas (UT) Dell Medical School, the investigators will explore how patient insights, data, storytelling, ideation, and prototyping can be employed to design a care delivery solution that enables patient outcome improvement. The goal of this project is to understand the life journey of patients with single-ventricle congenital heart disease and understand areas of that journey that can be improved. As such, the project intentionally does not start with a hypothesis, but instead seeks to gain insight of single-ventricle patients' care journey and based on that understanding identify opportunities for improvement.
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of conventional lying position and prone position ventilation on infants with acute lung injury after surgery for congenital heart disease. To explore the effectiveness and feasibility of prone position ventilation for children with acute lung injury after congenital heart disease surgery.
The incidence of moderate to severe congenital heart disease (CHD) in the United States is estimated to be 6 per 1000 live-born full term infants. Recent advances in pediatric cardiology, surgery and critical care have significantly improved the survival rates of patients with CHD leading to an increase in prevalence in both children and adults. Children with CHD significant enough to require cardiac surgery frequently also undergo non-cardiac surgical procedures. Analysis of the Pediatric Health Information System database between 2004 and 2012 demonstrated that 41% of children who had undergone surgery to correct CHD in the first year of life also underwent at least one non-cardiac surgery by age 5. With this increased demand for non-cardiac procedures, anesthesiologists, pediatricians and other healthcare providers will encounter patients with repaired or unrepaired CHD and other cardiac diseases in their practice. However, the information provided by national databases lack granularity and the information from single institutional data is limited. This project aims to address this knowledge gap in quantifying the risk for cardiac patients coming for noncardiac procedures and identify the health care resource utilization and system to best care for this patient population. To conduct this study, we will create a multi-institutional collaboration between large and small centers to create a unique dataset spanning all the different variables that need to be considered in risk prediction for these patients including patient variables, hospital setting, and providers. The aggregate multiinstitutional data set may be used for benchmarking for national quality improvement efforts.
The objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a real time continuous risk analytics algorithm in the successful de-escalation of vasoactive and inotropic support in pediatric patients following cardiac surgery.
Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of the reSept ASD Occluder to treat patients with clinically significant secundum atrial septal defect
Positive intra-thoracic pressures induced by mechanical ventilation can negatively impact right heart hemodynamics by restricting systemic venous return and increasing right ventricular afterload. These consequences may be detrimental in patients with a restrictive right ventricular physiology and in patients with single ventricle physiology. NAVA (Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist) ventilation decreases intra thoracic pressures compared to conventional ventilation modes. Brain perfusion is both a hemodynamic indicator and a prognostic factor in cardiac postoperative care. Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) coupled with Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is a new technology that allows monitoring, in addition to brain tissue oxygenation, changes in brain blood flow. This physiological study aims to evaluate the impact of NAVA mode ventilation on cerebral and systemic hemodynamics in post-operative cardiac surgery patients with preload dependant right ventricle or with passive venous return to the lungs . This prospective cross-over study will include 30 patients. Once stabilized in intensive care, patients will undergo 2 periods of ventilation in NAVA mode and conventional mode separated by a 30-minute washout period, in a random order. For each period the following information will be collected: changes in cerebral blood flow and cerebral oxygenation, hemodynamic parameters including cardiac output and oxygen transport and ventilatory parameters.
Congenital heart disease (CHD), the most common birth defect, is present in nearly 1% of the population. CHD patients are associated with intense resource utilization and premature death in adulthood. The risk of premature death is linked with reduced exercise capacity, a finding consistently noted in youth with CHD. Reduced exercise capacity in this population has also been associated with reduce physical activity and health-related quality of life. Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in adults with acquired heart disease is an established secondary prevention strategy that improves exercise capacity. The investigators propose a prospective clinical trial of a home-based high intensity interval training (HIIT) program using a novel telemedicine-equipped video game-linked cycle ergometer (MedBIKE™) for 10 to 18 year olds with repaired moderate-complex CHD. The pilot study with the MedBIKE has shown promising results. The investigators now seek to study the efficacy of this program in a broader CHD population.
This prospective randomized controlled trial aims to examine the effect of subcostal transverse abdominis plane block on the postoperative pain and opioid consumption in patients (12y≤ age) who will undergo epigastric cardiac pacemaker operation. Patients will be allocated to either the SC TAP(subcostal transverse abdominis plane block) group or the control group (no block). Bilateral subcostal transverse abdominis plane block will be performed using 0.25% ropivacaine (0.5mL/kg for each side, MAX 20mL for each side) under ultrasound-guidance at the end of surgery. The pain score at 10 min after PACU admin, 1, 6, 24 hours after the surgery, the total opioid consumption at 12, and 24 hours after the surgery, the total dose of additional rescue analgesia (intravenous ketololac or nalbuphine) at 12 and 24 hour after the surgery will be recorded.