SUMMER 2026
Yuri Oh, MS3, Children’s Medical Center, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX; Kyle M. Struzyk, MD, Children’s Medical Center, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX; Sana Ullah, MD, Children’s Medical Center, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Total intravenous versus volatile anesthesia in pediatric cardiac surgery: inflammatory response and early recovery profiles
Patel, G., Mandal, G., Kahlon, S., Garg, V., Dutt Puri, G., Kst, S., Rawat, A. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 2026 Jan; 40(1): 162-169. PMID: 41176450
Chinedu Otu, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Clinical Utility of Stroke Volume Index in Children with Idiopathic and Heritable Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Shinichi Takatsuki, Kinjal Parikh, Mio Sato, Yuta Kawamura, Yurika Shimizu, Reiko Kawai, Dunbar Ivy
Katie Zaleski, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Dana Saad, DO, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC; Destiny F. Chau, MD, Children’s National Hospital at George Washington University, Washington, DC
Quantitative Electroencephalogram Patterns During Neonatal Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion and Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest that Suggest Neurologic Injury
Orie GA, Swartz MF, Seltzer L, Yoshitake S, Alfieris GM
Katherine Zaleski, MD. Boston Children’s Hospital
Gabapentin as a novel adjuvant for postoperative irritability after superior cavopulmonary connection operation in children
Celine Thibault, E. Zachary Ramsey, Hailey Collier, Di Shu, Jennifer Faerber, Emily Schwartz, Jonathan Chen, David J Goldberg, Nadir Yehya, Monique M. Gardner
Emma Xi Li, MD. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
A randomized trial of the inflammatory cytokines levels and the blood transfusion rate between miniaturized tubing group and conventional tubing group in congenital heart disease open heart surgeries.
Wang P, Meng B, Li G, Zhou X, Zhang S, Zhang Q. Perfusion. 2024 May 7:2676591241252720. doi: 10.1177/02676591241252720. Online ahead of print.PMID: 3871296
Kyle M. Struzyk, MD and Sana Ullah, MD. Children’s Medical Center, UT Southwestern
Perioperative Factors and Radiographic Severity Scores for Predicting the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation After Arterial Switch Surgery.
Limratana P, Maisat W, Tsai A, Yuki K. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2024 Apr;38(4):992-1005. DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2024.01.011.. PMID: 38365467
Martina Barbic, MD and Vy A. Tran, MD. McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas at Houston
Validation of a Novel Method for Noninvasive Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation Monitoring in Anesthetized Children
Anders Svedmyr, MD, Kristoffer Steiner, MD, Andreas Andersson, MD, PhD, Gunnar Sjoberg, MD, PhD, Magnus Hallback, MSc, PhD, Mats Wallin, MD, MSc, PhD, Per-Arne Lonnqvist, MD, PhD, Jacob Karlsson, MD, PhD Anesth Analg. 2024 Oct 1;139(4):781-788. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007083. Epub 2024 Aug 2. PMID: 39093817.
David Preston, DO. Children’s Medical Center
Thromboelastography-guided Intraoperative Platelet Transfusion in Pediatric Heart Surgery
Sirisha Emani PhD, Reece Donahue BS, Aminah Callender BS, Merhawi Ghebremichael BS, Meena Nathan MD MPH, Juan C. Ibla MD MS, and Sitaram Emani MD. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2024 Dec, 118(6):1271-1278.
Lindsey Weidmann, DO,* J. “Nick” Pratap, MB, BChir*,†
Divisions of *Cardiac Anesthesiology and †Cardiac Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Intermittent Intravenous Paracetamol Versus Continuous Morphine in Infants Undergoing Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial
Zeilmaker-Roest G, de Vries-Rink C, van Rosmalen J, et al.Crit Care. 2024;28(1):143. doi: 10.1186/s13054-024-04905-3. PMID: 38689310; PMCID: PMC11061924
Katarzyna Dlugosz Sledz, MD, Olga Pawelek, MD, FASA
Department of Anesthesiology, McGovern Medical School at UT Health, Houston, Texas
Comparison of Multiple Injection Costotransverse Block and Erector Spinae Plane Block for Post-Sternotomy Pain Relief in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Randomized Comparative Study
Shruti Somani, MD, Neeti Makhija, MD, Sandeep Chauhan, MD, Debesh Bhoi, MD, Sambhunath Das, MD, Sushama Gayatri Bandi, MCH, Palleti Rajashekar, MCH, Akshya Kumar Bisoi, MCH. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2024 Apr;38(4):974-981. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2023.12.037. Epub 2023 Dec 29.PMID: 38326195
Ahmed Zaghw, MD, Destiny F. Chau, MD
Arkansas Children’s Hospital/ University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
A Retrospective Comparative Study of the Frequency of Hypotension in Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization under General Anesthesia: Remimazolam versus Sevoflurane
Tatsuhiko Shimizu, MD, PhD, Tomoyuki Kanazawa, MD, PhD, Tsubasa Yoshida, MD, Takanobu Sakura, MD, Kazuyoshi Shimizu, MD, PhD, Tatsuo Iwasaki, MD, PhD, Hiroshi Morimatsu, MD, PhD J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2024 Dec;38(12):3118-3126. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2024.08.038. Epub 2024 Sep 5. PMID: 39332984.
Zhe Amy Fang, MD, MPH, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Evaluation of Portal, Splenic, and Hepatic Vein Flows in Children Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgery
Ji-Hyun Lee, André Y. Denault, William Beaubien-Souligny, Sung-Ae Cho, Sang-Hwan Ji, Young-Eun Jang, Eun-Hee Kim, Hee-Soo Kim, Jin-Tae Kim Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 2023 Aug; 37(8): 1456-1468
Jamie Sinton MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH and Rajeev Wadia MD, University of California, Davis, CA
Extubation Failure After Cardiac Surgery in Children with Down Syndrome
Fernanda Salgado, Guillermo Larios, Gonzalo Valenzuela, Rodolfo Amstein, Patricio Valle, Paulo Valderrama
Eur J Pediatr. 2023 Jul;182(7):3157-3164.
David Preston, DO and Sana Ullah MD, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas TX
Impact of a Quality Improvement Initiative with a Dedicated Anesthesia Team on Outcomes After Surgery for Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Authors: Bill Walsh, MB, BCh, BAO, FCAI, FJFICMI, Brigitte Mueller, PhD, S. Lucy Roche, MB, ChB, MRCPCH, MD, Rafael Alonso-Gonzalez, MD, Emily Somerset, MSc, Minako Sano, MD, Milca Villagran Schmidt, MD, Edward Hickey, MD, FRCS(C), David Barron, MBBS, MD, FRCP, and Jane Heggie, MD, FRCP(C) JTCVS Open 2023;14:188-204.
Tommy Rappold, Jr. MD,* Jamie Sinton, MD,** J. “Nick” Pratap, MD, BChir*
*Divisions of Cardiac Anesthesiology and Cardiac Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
**Department of Anesthesia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Machine Learning–Based Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury Following Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Model Development and Validation Study
Xiao-Qin Luo, Yi-Xin Kang, Shao-Bin Duan, Ping Yan, Guo-Bao Song, Ning-Ya Zhang, Shi-Kun Yang, Jing-Xin Li, Hui Zhang J Med Internet Res. 2023. 25 (2023): e41142.
Faith Ross, MD, MS, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Katherine Zaleski, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Medically Related Post-traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents with Congenital Heart Defects
Maya G. Meentken, Ingrid van Beynum, Jeroen S. Legerstee, Willem A. Helbing, and Elisabeth M. W. J. Utens
Manal Mirreh, MD1, Asif Padiyath, MD2 1,2 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
The Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Effects of Propofol and Sevoflurane in Children With Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease
Feride Karacaer, Ebru Biricik, Murat Ilgınel, Demet Laflı Tunay, Yusuf Döğüş, Özlem Görüroğlu Öztürk, Yasin Güzel, Onur Benli, Yasemin Güneş Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 65-72
Bridget K. Pearce, MD1; Faith J. Ross, MD, MS2
1CS Mott Children’s Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Calcium Administration During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children With Heart Disease Is Associated With Worse Survival
Gurpreet S. Dhillon, Monica Kleinman, Steve Staffa, Sarah Teele, Ravi Thiagarajan Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Nov 22, vol 23, number 11, 860-871
Christopher Smith, MD; Wenyu Bai, MD – Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
Inferior and Superior Vena Cava Saturation Monitoring After Neonatal Cardiac Surgery
Mark A. Law, MD; Alexis L. Benscoter, DO; Santiago Borasino, MD, MPH; Maya Dewan, MD, MPH; A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, PhD; Rohit S. Loomba, MD; Kristal M. Hock, MSN, RN, CNL; Jeffrey A. Alten, MD Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 23(7): p e347-e355, July 2022.
Destiny F. Chau MD*; Faith Ross MD**; Jamie Sinton MD***
*Arkansas Children’s Hospital/ University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
**Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
***Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Non-White Race/Ethnicity and Female Sex Are Associated with Increased Allogeneic Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Cardiac Surgery Patients: 2007-2018
Sinead O’Shaughnessy, MD, MSc; Virginia Tangel, MA, MSc; Safiya Dzotsi, BA; Silis Jiang, PhD; Robert White, MD, MS; Marguerite Hoyler, MD J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Jul;36(7):1908-1918.
Destiny Chau, MD. Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Intraoperative Methadone Is Associated with Decreased Perioperative Opioid Use Without Adverse Events: A Case-Matched Cohort Study. Robinson JD, Caruso TJ, Wu M, Kleiman ZI, Kwiatkowski DM. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2020 Feb; 34(2): 335-341. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2019.09.033.
Richard Hubbard, MD and Nischal Gautam, MD. McGovern Medical School/Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
Efficacy of Bilateral Erector Spinae Plane Block in Management of Acute Postoperative Surgical Pain After Pediatric Cardiac Surgeries Through a Midline Sternotomy. Kaushal B, Chauhan S, Magoon R, Krishna NS, Saini K, Bhoi D, Bisoi AK. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2020; 34(4): 981-986. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2019.08.009.
Lori Q. Riegger, MD. Mott Children’s Hospital/Michigan Medicine
Comparison of intranasal midazolam, intranasal ketamine, and oral chloral hydrate for conscious sedation during paediatric echocardiography: results of a prospective randomised study. Alp H, Elmacı AM, Alp EK, Say B. Cardiol Young 2019; 29(9): 1189-1195. doi: 10.1017/S1047951119001835.
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 and 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.
Sana Ullah, MD. UT Southwestern Medical Center:
Positive Airway Pressure Versus High-Flow Nasal Cannula for Prevention of Extubation Failure in Infants After Congenital Heart Surgery.
Richter RP, Alten JA, King RW, Gans AD, Rahman AF, Kalra Y, Borasino S. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2019 Feb; 20(2): 149-157. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001783.
PMID: 30407954
Anne Elisa Cossu, MD. Riley Hospital for Children:
High-energy nutrition in paediatric cardiac critical care patients: a randomized controlled trial.
Zhang H, Gu Y, Mi Y, Jin Y, Fu W, Latour JM. Nurs Crit Care. 2019 Mar;24(2):97-102. doi: 10.1111/nicc.12400. Epub 2018 Dec 9.
PMID: 30548121
Laura A. Downey, MD. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory University:
Anesthesia for high-risk procedures in the catheterization laboratory.
Daaboul DG, DiNardo JA, Nasr VG. Pediatr Anesth. 2018 Dec 28. doi: 10.1111/pan.13571. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 30592354