Open Access Articles from March 2021 Issue

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Volume 12 Issue 2, March 2021

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In Memoriam: William I. Norwood Jr (1941-2020)

Published: March 08, 2021.
Pages 161-163

Contributors

Edward J. Malec; Marshall L. Jacobs

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2150135121992008

Fate of the Arterial Origin of Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries After Unifocalization

Published: March 08, 2021.
Pages 230-233

Contributors

P.C. van de Woestijne; J.A.A.E. Cuypers; W.A. Helbing; A.J.J.C. Bogers

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2150135120976135 

Updating an Empirically Based Tool for Analyzing Congenital Heart Surgery Mortality

Published: March 08, 2021.
Pages 246-281

Contributors

Marshall L. Jacobs; Jeffrey P. Jacobs; Dylan Thibault; Kevin D. Hill; Brett R. Anderson; Pirooz Eghtesady; Tara Karamlou; S. Ram Kumar; John E. Mayer; Carlos M. Mery; Meena Nathan; David M. Overman; Sara K. Pasquali; James D. St. Louis; David Shahian; Sean M. O’Brien

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2150135121991528

2 Online First Articles – Dec 8, 2020

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
Online First Articles

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COVID-19 Testing, Surgical Prioritization, and Reactivation in a Congenital Cardiac Surgery Program

Published: November 12, 2020.
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Contributors

Brandon M. Wojcik; Taufiek K. Rajab; Shanna Newman; James Jaggers; Max B. Mitchell

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Effect of Albumin Addition to Cardiopulmonary Bypass Prime on Outcomes in Children Undergoing Open-Heart Surgery (EACPO Study)—A Randomized Controlled Trial

Published: October 20, 2020.
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Contributors

Abdul Rauf; Reena K. Joshi; Neeraj Aggarwal; Mridul Agarwal; Manendra Kumar; Veronique Dinand; Raja Joshi

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November 2020 Published

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
Volume 11 Issue 6, November 2020 Published

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COVID-19: Crisis Management in Congenital Heart Surgery

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Preface

Our nation’s health care infrastructure faces unprecedented challenges in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the congenital heart disease (CHD) community is no exception.These challenges include looming resource scarcities of equipment, personnel, and blood. In addition, there are the substantial infection risks to patients, family members, and staff. These factors necessitate thoughtful but often difficult decisions onhow to best triage patients with CHD. Our relatively small workforce adds another dimension to the challenge, since therapid spread of COVID-19 could result in program closure at a moment’s notice secondary to insufficient personnel from infection or quarantine. Although many sectors of our society can be placed on hiatus during this period of crisis, our patients’diseases continue to require care, particularly among newborns and infants who often necessitate operations during a narrow temporal window for satisfactory outcomes.

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