Facilities & Resources

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Inpatient Clinical Care Units

• Pediatric Cardiac Care Center (PCCC-GCH 6S)
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU-GCH 6N)
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU-GCH 3)
• Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU-7-1600 Unit)
• Heart failure/transplant step-down unit (7-3400 Unit)
• Cardiology telemetry unit (7-3600 Unit)
• Cardiothoracic surgery step-down unit (7-1400 Unit)

In addition, an academic cardiac surgery program and congenital cardiac surgical program are present at the primary training site.

Clinical Resources

• Outpatient clinical care mainly consists of participation in Cardiology clinics where new and follow-up patients are seen. The Children’s Heart Center provides outpatient examination rooms as well as a family conference room. Fellows have access to electronic Health records. Echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, and Heart Station services (electrocardiography, Holter monitoring, event monitoring, treadmill testing, cardiopulmonary exercise testing) are also located in the Children’s Heart Center.
• Use of the state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization laboratories for invasive studies and electrophysiology studies occurs in the Clay E. and Rita M. Buzzard Pediatric Cardiac Cath Lab Suite.  The laboratories contain cardiac fluoroscopic Bi-plane equipment, state-of-the-art monitoring and recording systems, and resuscitative equipment.  There is a separate procedure room located on the PICU/PCCC units (GCH 6). This procedure room is fully equipped with monitoring equipment, and is utilized for common pediatric ICU procedures. A sedation suite GCH-Imaging is fully equipped with state of the art monitoring equipment and resuscitation equipment and is site of procedural sedations and managed by pediatric trained nurses and radiology staff.
• A state-of-the-art pediatric critical care transport team transports critically ill neonates and children across the region. Two teams exist, neonatal and pediatric. A large ambulance unit dedicated to the Children’s hospital is utilized by trained staff (including critical care nurses, respiratory therapists, intensivists., as needed) to transport critically ill children to our institution. The fellow will have an opportunity to assist in such transports and gain additional insight into management of critically ill children with cardiac disease.
• Each fellow will have access to meeting rooms within the divisions of Pediatric Critical Care and Cardiology, electronic medical records, a CICU call room, and access to specialty- specific reference materials in electronic or printed format.