Excited to share the latest issue of the PCICS newsletter - as the home of pediatric cardiac critical care, we are proud to showcase 4 centers and clinicians from across the world and stimulate intellectual crosstalk ahead of the annual meeting in December!

We know it is true. Now it needs to be fixed. Thank you Jennifer Romano & Rainha Sinha for laying out the detail. Tara Karamlou Emile BACHA Columbia Surgery
Kristine Guleserian Elizabeth Stephens, MD, PhD ...& in case we thought it was isolated to surgery, check out 2nd article re promotion, 2021 NEJM

Hey Mark Cuban , your online pharmacy is doing amazing things for adults. Can you also make it available for children? Thousands of children require immunosuppression or heart failure meds which are extremely expensive. Can we work together on this? ACTION Transplant Families

Again.

What an absolutely sad day #MedTwitter

1/In recent days, the U.S. FDA has authorized and the CDC (via Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH) has recommended the Pfizer Inc. and Moderna #COVID19 vaccines for
children 6m+.

Though the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines are quite impressive, I've seen a more fundamental question.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 say it louder for the #medtwitter folks in the back

Cardiac physiology refresh! Oh PV loops….

Very fun to edit this! Lots of great insights by Paul Checchia and it helps that his good friend Mary McBride interviewed him. Conversation very entertaining. Someday I’ll release the unedited version. 🤣

Dr. Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician in Uvalde, Texas, described to Congress seeing children so 'pulverized' and 'decapitated' by bullets 'that the only clue as to their identities was their blood-spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them.' nyti.ms/3NEepyG

If this isn’t proof that our healthcare system needs to change….

#PedsCICU content in June's Pediatric Critical Care Medicine includes a review of cardiac physiology in #sepsis and a study on the positive inotropic effects of digoxin in the single ventricle interstage population #CHD #PedsCards #PedsICU

It needs to be far easier to access mental healthcare. It needs to be impossible to access a semi-automatic rifle. How is this not obvious and urgently important? #MedTwitter #GunControlNow #Mentalhealth and yes urgently important may be redundant but just WTF

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Cancel NRA Convention in Houston. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/canc…

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

'As a pediatrician, parent and grandmother, I grieve with all the families of the children and adults who were killed today in #Uvalde , Texas, victims of a gunman who incomprehensively opened fire in an elementary school.' Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP full statement: aap.org/en/news-room/n…

Representation matters! This little beauty has a doll with a VAD just like her, thanks to some magic 3D printing from her dad. University of Utah PICU #playtherapy #PedsCICU

(Permission to share given by parent)

Often times my worst day of work is a parents worst day of their lives. That’s a hard pill to swallow. #PedsICU #pedscicu