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Pediatric Cardiovascular Program Highlights

 

Read the 2010 Pediatric Cardiac Outcomes Report:
"Close at Heart" PDF

  • In 2010, our surgeons performed 303 pediatric and 28 adult congenital surgeries with a 97.6% survival. As a large surgical center, we participate in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery National Database. Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children takes on the most difficult cases and is advancing the field using new techniques.
  • Our pediatric cardiac catheterization team performed 208 cardiac catheterizations in 2010. Interventional catheterization cases totaled 120 and diagnostic cases totaled 88.

  • In 2010, our electrophysiology team conducted 89 procedures, the majority being radiofrequency ablation.
  • At the Center for Coordinated Fetal Care, our multidisciplinary team who treats fetal heart abnormities, diagnosed fetal heart defects in more than 45 expectant moms in 2010. They also facilitated their delivery and ongoing care of their child.


  • The hybrid approach has been added to the management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Five were treated in 2010 for single ventricle patients. This technique consists of bilateral PA bands and a PDA stent, later followed by an atrial septostomy or stent. We are currently assessing outcomes of the hybrid approach compared to Norwood procedures.


  • Two new attending physicians joined our staff – Dr. Adrienne Kilgore came from University of Virginia’s Cardiology Fellowship program and Dr. Steve Herold came from a practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

  • Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children received a Quality Improvement of the Year Award from George Mason University's College of Health and Human Services.

  • The Cardiac Feeding Team received a clinical excellence award for its “Feeding the Way to a Shorter Stay” initiative. The program uses an evidence-based algorithm to standardize and improve the feeding of the hospital’s youngest cardiac surgery patients.


  • In December 2010 the Children's Hospital earned a bronze medal operating units as part of Inova Health System’s Iams Memorial Quality Leadership Awards.


  • As part of the IMproving Pediatric and Adult Congenital Treatments Registry™, we are able to measure the variability in the performance and outcomes of both diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization procedures in all children and adults with congenital heart disease. We are one of the first 10 congenital heart centers to participate.
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    Read about one family's journey in the Washingtonian magazine 


    Pediatric Heart Surgery Stories

    Addie's Story

    Addie had two surgeries to successfully treat her transposition of the great arteries.

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