CCAS Webinar: Measuring What Matters: Quality Metrics, Data Infrastructure, and Safe Practice in Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia
Saturday, January 31, 2026
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST (US)
1.5 CME Credits
SPEAKERS/TOPICS:
“Defining Quality Metrics for Individual and Institutional Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Groups”
Kristin M. Chenault, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
“Creating Tools Institutions Can Rely On (Data Collection and Display Tools – e.g., SlicerDicer, Dashboards)”
Peggy Vogt, MD
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University
“Organizational Requirements for the Safe Conduct of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia”
Joanna Rosing Paquin, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
MODERATORS:
Lisa Caplan, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital
Stephen Gleich, MD, FAAP, FASA
Mayo Clinic
INTRODUCTIONS:
Rania Abbasi, MD
Riley Children’s Hospital
Nischal Gautam, MD
UT Health, Houston
At the completion of this Webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Describe how data-analytic tools such as Slicer Dicer can support reliable quality improvement efforts and demonstrate a basic level of proficiency using the tool
- Review and discuss quality and safety metrics outlines in Proposed Quality Metrics for Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia: A Scoping Review.
- Identify key organizational elements necessary for safe pediatric cardiac anesthesia care.
SPA Financial Conflict Resolution
Accreditation and Designation
The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. CCAS is a Section of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia. The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia designates this Other (Live and Enduring Material) activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Education Mission Statement
The CCAS Webinar Series will focus on topics of interest to those who provide anesthesia, sedation, pain management, and critical care services to infants and children with heart disease, and adults with congenital heart disease. The overall goals for attendees of the program are to reinforce and enhance their existing fund of knowledge, while introducing them to new and state-of-the-art techniques and information that affect their practice and improve the perioperative care of patients with heart disease.