CCAS-CHiP Network Journal Watch Collaboration

By Rania K. Abbasi, MD

This edition of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society (CCAS)-Congenital Heart Professionals (CHiP) Network's Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care Journal Watch brings a broad range of topics, from anesthetic and ventilatory strategies, to cardiopulmonary bypass management, to arrest events in the Intensive Care Unit.

Our CCAS members have written thoughtful commentaries, including one with an intensive care focus.  We hope these articles can stimulate discussion and perhaps ideas for future investigations.

• Venugopal Amula MD, Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist at Primary Children’s Hospital/University of Utah in SLC, Utah
  Risk Factors for Peri-Intubation Cardiac Arrest in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Patients: A Multicenter Study
  Esangbedo ID, Byrnes J, Brandewie K, Ebraheem M, Yu P, Zhang S, Raymond T.  Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2020 Jul 28. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000002472. Online ahead of print.  PMID: 32740187

• Anne Elisa Cossu MD, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA
  Impact of Anesthetic and Ventilation Strategies on Invasive Hemodynamic Measurements in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients   
  Stohl S, Klein MJ, Ross PA, vonBusse S, Menteer J.  Pediatr Cardiol.  2020; 41(5): 962-971.  doi: 10.1007/s00246-020-02344-9. Epub 2020 Jun 18.  PMID: 32556487

• Rajeev Wadia MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins University
  Efficacy of Nitric Oxide Administration in Attenuating Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury During Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Bypass  
  Elzein C, Urbas C, Hughes B, Li Y, Lefaiver C, Ilbawi M, Vricella L.  World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2020; 11(4): 417-423.  doi: 10.1177/2150135120911034.  PMID: 32645771

The next Anesthesia Journal Watch installment will come in June 2021.  If you are interested in writing a brief commentary, please contact Rania K. Abbasi, MD.