CCAS-CHiP Network Journal Watch Collaboration

By Rania K. Abbasi, MD

The winter newsletter brings the second installment of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society (CCAS)-Congenital Heart Professionals (CHiP) Network's Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care Journal Watch.  Four of our members have provided excellent commentaries listed below of the following articles: 

• Pablo Motta, MD - Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
  Modified Lung Ultrasound Examinations in Assessment and Monitoring of Positive End-Expiratory Pressure-Induced Lung Reaeration in Young Children With Congenital Heart Disease Under General Anesthesia
  Wu L, Hou Q, Bai J et al.  Pediatr Crit Care Med 2019; 20: 442–449. DOI:10.1097/PCC.0000000000001865. 
  PMID: 31058784.

• Kelly A. Machovec, MD, MPH - Duke University Medical Center
  Correlation Between ROTEM FIBTEM Maximum Clot Firmness A nd Fibrinogen Levels In Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients 
  Tirotta CF, Lagueruela RG, Madril D et al.  Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis 2018; 25: 1-5.  DOI:10.1177/1076029618816382.  
  PMID:30518238.

• Olga Pawelek, MD and Nischal Gautam, MD - McGovern Medical School/ Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
  Near-infrared Spectroscopy for Prediction of Extubation Success After Neonatal Cardiac Surgery 
  Gradidge EA, Grimaldi LM, Cashen K et al.   Cardiology in the Young 2019; 29: 787–92.  DOI: 10.1017/S1047951119000829. 
  PMID: 31169104.
  

The next installment will come in June 2020.  If you are interested in writing a brief commentary, please contact Rania K. Abbasi, MD at rkabbasi@gmail.com by March 1.  Reviews will be due to the CCAS Communication Committee no later than May 1, 2019.