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Cardiac Kids of Florida – Jamaica Heart Mission

    • Website: https://cardiackidsfl.com
    • Location(s): Bustamante Children’s Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica
    • Frequency: yearly in late winter/early Spring
    • Length: 5 clinical days, 7-8 days total
    • Anesthesia services needed: Pediatric cardiac anesthesia for OR and cardiac catheterization lab
    • Contact info: https://cardiackidsfl.com/contact/
    • Requirements: Qualified pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist
    • Cost: Travel, hotel, and meals included
    • Mission statement: The organization is headed up by Dr. Jeffrey Jacobs.  The mission trips to Jamaica have saved many precious, young lives.  Over the last 17 years, the mission work has endowed the medical and surgical teams at the Bustamante Hospital for Children with the knowledge, training, and skills needed to continue saving lives well into the future.

 

Cardiochavitos

    • Website: https://cardiochavitos.org/
    • Location(s): Mexico, Latin America
    • Contact info: https://cardiochavitos.org/contacto/
    • Mission statement: Through diverse actions and coordination with national and international actors and institutions, we provide minors in vulnerable situations who have congenital heart disease with medical procedures of the highest quality that are free of charge. At the same time, we provide them and their families with appropriate and timely information while we welcome them into a highly empathetic community of support.

 

Cardiostart International

    • Website: https://cardiostart.org/
    • Location(s): Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Tanzania
    • Length: 2 weeks
    • Anesthesia services needed: adult and pediatric anesthesiologists for pediatric and adult patients presenting congenital cardiac surgery
    • Contact info: https://cardiostart.org/volunteers/
    • Mission statement: Our Mission is to educate and assist local medical teams in providing heart surgery and cardiac services to adults and children in underserved regions of the world. Our Vision is a world where access to cardiac care can be realized by everyone.

 

Chain of Hope

    • Website: https://www.chainofhope.org/
    • Locations

 

      • Brazil
      • Burundi
      • Cameroon
      • Egypt
      • El Salvador
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Gambia
      • Grenada
      • Haiti
      • Iraq
      • Jamaica
      • Jordan
      • Kenya
      • Kosovo
      • Lebanon
      • Malawi
      • Mauritius
      • Morocco
      • Mozambique
      • Pakistan
      • Palestinian Territories
      • Panama
      • Senegal
      • Somaliland
      • Sudan
      • Syria
      • Trinidad and Tobago
      • Uganda
      • Vietnam
      • Yemen
      • Zimbabwe

 

    • Length: 7 days
    • Anesthesia services needed: Strictly pediatric cardiac and cardiology procedures typically up to age 12 (the hospital limit), though exceptions for adult congenital heart disease are occasionally made.
    • Requirements: current medical license, degree certificates, professional references, DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Services), Curriculum Vitae
    • Contact info: [email protected], application form available at https://www.chainofhope.org/what-you-can-do/medical-volunteers/
    • Cost: Chain of Hope covers all expenses, including accommodations, airfare, travel insurance, local travel and all meals

 

Children’s Lifeline

    • Website: https://childrens-lifeline.org/
    • Location(s): Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Panama
    • Frequency: 3-4 times per year
    • Length: 5-7 days
    • Contact info: https://childrens-lifeline.org/contact-cli/, [email protected]
    • Mission statement: Children’s Lifeline International provides medical teams and surgical assistance to underprivileged children in developing countries. Multidisciplinary, voluntary missions in partnership with local hospitals are vital for these countries to achieve independence and be self-sustaining.

 

Corazon de Nino

    • Website: https://beta.corazondenino.org/
    • Location(s): Baja California Sur
    • Anesthesia services needed:
    • Contact info: https://beta.corazondenino.org/contacto
    • Mission statement: Provide support to children and young people in Baja California Sur diagnosed with a heart disease, making available to them the treatments indicated for their condition, as well as follow-up that helps to improve their quality of life.

 

Gift of Life International

    • Website: https://giftoflifeinternational.org/
    • Location(s): Haiti, Kosovo, The Philippines (Manila and Cebu), Dominican Republic, Egypt, India, Lebanon, Jordan, Romania, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
    • Frequency: variable
    • Length: variable
    • Anesthesia services needed: pediatric cardiac anesthesia
    • Requirements: location specific
    • Contact info: https://giftoflifeinternational.org/get-involved/
    • Mission statement: Gift of Life delivers hope to children with heart disease and to their families by empowering doctors and nurses with the tools, training, funding and support they need to treat children in their country of birth. We help develop sustainable pediatric cardiac programs in emerging countries through strategic guidance and expand our global reach through partnerships with like-minded organizations to maximize our impact.

 

Healing Little Hearts

    • Website: https://healinglittlehearts.org/
    • Location(s)

 

      • Bangladesh
      • Bolivia
      • Cameroon
      • India
      • Jordan
      • Kenya
      • Latvia
      • Libya
      • Malaysia
      • Mauritius
      • Namibia
      • Nepal
      • Nicaragua
      • Nigeria
      • Pakistan
      • Palestine
      • Romania
      • Tanzania
      • Trinidad & Tobago

 

    • Frequency: variable
    • Length: 7-10 days
    • Anesthesia services needed:
    • Requirements: Pediatric anesthesia fellows (toward end of training), pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists attendings with full medical license, letter of good standing from current employment
    • Cost: All covered with exception of from food
    • Contact info: https://healinglittlehearts.org/how-can-i-help/volunteering/apply-to-become-a-medical-volunteer/
    • Mission statement: Sending specialized medical teams to perform free lifesaving heart surgery on babies and children in developing parts of the world

 

Heart Care International

    • Website: https://heartcareintl.org/
    • Location(s): Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Peru and Mexico
    • Frequency: 4-5 times per year
    • Length: 1 week
    • Anesthesia services needed: pediatric cardiac anesthesia
    • Contact info: volunteer application at https://heartcareintl.org/volunteer/, email [email protected]
    • Requirements: all members of medical team welcome (physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, perfusionists, OR techs, biomed)
    • Cost: $240 donation, 6 dinners. All travel expenses, breakfasts, lunches, and 1 dinner covered by organization.
    • Mission statement: Heart Care International partners with hospitals in developing countries that want to raise the quality of their cardiac care for needy infants and children. Through this partnership, Heart Care International commits to a minimum 5-year relationship to build local pediatric cardiac programs.

 

Heart Gift

    • Website: https://heartgift.org
    • Location(s): Kenya, Bolivia
    • Frequency: variable
    • Length: 1 week
    • Anesthesia services needed: pediatric cardiac anesthesia
    • Requirements: pediatric CV anesthesia fellows in training, faculty
    • Cost: no financial obligation
    • Contact info: https://heartgift.org/contact/#form
    • Mission statement: HeartGift provides life-saving congenital heart surgery to children from around the world where specialized medical treatment is either scarce or nonexistent.

 

Heart Healers International

    • Website: https://www.hearthealersinternational.com/
    • Location(s): Uganda, Morocco
    • Contact info: https://www.hearthealersinternational.com/contact-us
    • Mission statement: Heart Healers International is a non-profit organization that works in African countries by bringing life-saving cardiac diagnostics and treatments to children. We also work along with local medical teams in caring for patients, conducting ongoing research, and providing education as to ensure sustainability and success for the cardiac health of African children.

 

Heart to Heart Global Cardiac Care

    • Website: https://www.heart-2-heart.org/
    • Location(s): Russia, Peru, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Mexico, Guatemala
    • Frequency: variable
    • Length: 1-2 weeks
    • Anesthesia services needed: pediatric cardiac anesthesia
    • Requirements: appropriate credentials to provide similar care in the US
    • Cost: covered aside from travel insurance
    • Contact info: [email protected]
    • Mission statement: Heart to Heart develops self-sustaining medical programs in areas of need, measurably expanding access to life-saving cardiac care. Teams of specialists trained by Heart to Heart help to reduce the global burden of heart disease today and for generations to come.

 

Mending Kids

    • Website: https://www.mendingkids.org/missiontrips.html
    • Location(s): Mauritius, Philippines, Nicaragua, Tanzania
    • Frequency: several times per year
    • Length: 7-10 days
    • Anesthesia services needed: Pediatric anesthesiologists, pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists
    • Requirements: 5 years of working experience as fully licensed anesthesiologist
    • Cost: Surgical team fees $400-750 depending on location; covers the cost of your economy flights, COVID testing for your return flight, double, triple or group occupancy accommodations (depending on the location,) local transportation, breakfast, lunch, and some dinners
    • Contact info: volunteer form https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/ZqQNX_oenMhwFhntFkcnGQ
    • Mission statement: Mending Kids provides free life-saving surgical care to sick children worldwide by deploying volunteer medical teams and educating communities to become medically self-sustaining.

 

Novick Cardiac Alliance

    • Website: https://cardiac-alliance.org/
    • Location(s): Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, India, Lebanon, Rwanda, Iraq, Ecuador, Russia, Libya, Ethiopia
    • Frequency: 6 times per year
    • Length: 1-2 weeks
    • Anesthesia services needed: anesthesiologists, anesthesia nurses, intensivists, medical students, residents, fellows
    • Contact info: volunteer form at https://cardiac-alliance.org/volunteer/
    • The Novick Cardiac Alliance is committed to bringing sustainable health care solutions to children with cardiac disease in the Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC).

 

Surgeons of Hope

    • Website: https://surgeonsofhope.org/
    • Location(s): Paraguay, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
    • Frequency: 3-4 times per year
    • Length: 1 week
    • Contact info: [email protected]
    • Mission Statement: Surgeons of Hope has developed a sustainable strategy to provide care to children in need of heart surgery. We approach the need on three key fronts by providing urgently needed care, cultivating skills in local medical teams, and constructing centers of care in developing countries. Their mission is to create a word where every infant and child with a damaged heart has an equal opportunity to receive lifesaving care.

 

VOOM Foundation

    • Website: voomfoundation.org
    • Location(s): Nigeria
    • Frequency: two 2-week trips per year for pediatric open-heart and interventional cardiology (May and September)
    • Length: 1-2 weeks
    • Anesthesia services needed: anesthesiologists, CRNAs, perfusionists
    • Requirements: 2 years professional experience, experience in teaching/training, passport, VISA entry, vaccines (COVID)
    • Cost: Mission staff responsible for international airline ticket and entry VISA into Nigeria. Hotel, food, and local transportation provided
    • Contact info: Shawn Andaya-Pulliam, [email protected]
    • Mission statement: The VOOM Foundation is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to provide impartial, sustainable healthcare programs dedicated to quality, with a particular focus on supporting the underprivileged and underserved in Africa. VOOM’s long-term vision is to raise the standard of healthcare in Nigeria through education and training at healthcare facilities that care for all patients, regardless of their ability to pay.

 

 

Poll of the Month

May 2025
At your institution, do you routinely send a TEG/ROTEM during the rewarming phase of cardiopulmonary bypass?
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Total Answers 173
Total Votes 173

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CCAS 2026 Annual Meeting

March 12, 2026
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Denver, CO

 

 

 

 

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