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Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care

Volume 2: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

  • Novel approach looking at clinical issues
  • Includes detailed review of best practices in congenital heart disease
  • Highly informative for all who treat pediatric cardiac disease

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Introduction

    • Paul R. Barach, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Peter C. Laussen, Steven E. Lipshultz
    Pages 1-6
  3. Implementation Science: Continuous Quality Improvement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Selection, Training and Mentoring of Cardiac Surgeons

      • Ross M. Ungerleider, George R. Verghese, Douglas G. Ririe, Jamie Dickey Ungerleider
      Pages 9-38
    3. Quality Improvement in Pediatric Cardiology: The National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative

      • Jeffrey B. Anderson, Robert H. Beekman III, Gerard R. Martin, Carole Lannon
      Pages 51-67
    4. Teams, Team Training, and the Role of Simulation

      • Paul R. Barach, Peter H. Cosman
      Pages 69-90
    5. The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Operating Room Continuum: Quality and Safety in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

      • David S. Cooper, Darren Klugman, Angela J. Kinstler, David P. Nelson, Stephen Muething
      Pages 91-104
    6. Professional Formation of Physicians Focused on Improving Care

      • Ingrid Philibert, Paul V. Miles
      Pages 105-121
    7. Surgical Volume and Outcome Relationship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

      • David Kalfa, Danielle Gottlieb, Jonathan M. Chen, Emile Bacha
      Pages 123-133
    8. The Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry

      • Nathaniel H. Greene, Sanjay M. Bhananker, Karen L. Posner, Karen B. Domino
      Pages 135-143
    9. Reporting in Pediatric Resuscitation: Get with the Guidelines-Resuscitation Registry

      • Heather A. Wolfe, Robert M. Sutton, Alexis Topjian, Akira Nishisaki, Dana E. Niles, Peter A. Meaney et al.
      Pages 145-151
    10. Addressing Nutrition and Growth in Children with Congenital Heart Disease

      • Jeffrey B. Anderson, Robert H. Beekman III
      Pages 153-163
    11. Patients as Observers and Reporters in Support of Systems and Patient Safety

      • James W. Pichert, Gerald B. Hickson
      Pages 165-184
    12. Failure to Rescue and Failure to Perceive in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Lessons Learned from Aviation

      • Edward J. Hickey, Glen S. Van Arsdell, Peter C. Laussen
      Pages 185-195
    13. Improving Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiology

      • Shakeel A. Qureshi, Thomas Witter
      Pages 209-215
    14. Leadership and Quality Improvement

      • Robert Campbell, Larry Mohl
      Pages 229-237

About this book

There are growing questions regarding the safety, quality, risk management, and costs of PCC teams, their training and preparedness, and their implications on the welfare of patients and families. This innovative book, authored by an international authorship, will highlight the best practices in improving survival while paving a roadmap for the expected changes in the next 10 years as healthcare undergoes major transformation and reform. An invited group of experts in the field will participate in this project to provide the timeliest and informative approaches to how to deal with this global health challenge. The book will be indispensable to all who treat pediatric cardiac disease and will provide important information about managing the risk of patients with pediatric and congenital cardiac disease in the three domains of: the analysis of outcomes, the improvement of quality, and the safety of patients.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Medicine,, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Paul R. Barach

  • Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery,, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, All Children’s Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children, Johns Hopkins University, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Orlando, FL, USA, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

    Jeffery P. Jacobs

  • School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

    Steven E. Lipshultz

  • University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

    Peter C. Laussen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 2: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

  • Editors: Paul R. Barach, Jeffery P. Jacobs, Steven E. Lipshultz, Peter C. Laussen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6566-8

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6565-1Published: 15 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7033-4Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-6566-8Published: 04 December 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 456

  • Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Pediatrics, Quality of Life Research

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Health & Hospitals, Pharma

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Buying options

eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 179.00
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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