Conquering CHD

JANUARY 17, 2025

After struggling with heart failure for the first months of his life, doctors told his parents that Zeke would need a heart transplant immediately. Within one day, our heart transplant team performed the transplant surgery. Now Zane, 6, and Zeke, 5, are living lives the odds said were unlikely.

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Heart Transplant Transplant Open-Heart Surgery Nursing 98

DAIC

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Getty Images milla1cf Wed, 02/21/2024 - 19:10 February 21, 2024 — Ochsner Children's Hospital , ranked among the top hospitals in the nation for pediatric cardiology and congenital heart surgery, is raising awareness of the need for more pediatric-specific heart devices. Yet, research and innovation in this field has not kept pace.

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Pediatrics Hospital Heart Failure Transplant 105

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

MARCH 6, 2022

So she went back in 4 weeks and this time saw another doctor who asked her to stop the inhalers and suggested that it could be her heart and organised a chest X-ray and blood tests. How can you possibly build rapport and trust if you never see the same doctors/ nurses more than once?

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Chronic Disease Quality of Life Heart Failure Nursing 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

He was transitioned to oral heart failure medications and discharged home slightly over one week after presentation. He was readmitted a few weeks later for a heart failure exacerbation, diuresed, and discharged again. The last information available is that the patient was undergoing heart transplant evaluation.

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Chest Pain Aneurysm STEMI Thrombosis 52