Regionalization of Brazilian pediatric cardiovascular surgery

Regionalization of Brazilian pediatric cardiovascular surgery.

1. Especialista em Cirurgia Cardiovascular, mestre em Avaliação de Políticas Públicas pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), chefe de Cirurgia Cardiovascular Pediátrica do Hospital Messejana, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. 2. Doutora em Enfermagem pela Universidade Federal do Ceará, docente do Curso de Mestrado Profissional em Avaliação de Políticas Públicas pela UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. 3. Docen...

Brazilian Congress of Cardiovascular Surgery

Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery

Hybrid stage I palliation combines cardiothoracic surgery and interventional transcatheter procedures for treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The approach is an alternative to the Norwood procedure, the traditional first stage of surgical palliation. Hybrid stage I palliation involves placing bilateral branch pulmonary artery bands and a patent ductus arteriosus stent through a median...

Cardiac surgery, the Brazilian Archives of Cardiology and the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery.

In the last Brazilian Congress of Cardiology, there was a round table dedicated to the Brazilian Archives of Cardiology (BAC). The interesting initiative of the Editor, Professor. Luiz Felipe Pinho Moreira, was addressing the varied lines of articles published in the triennium 2010-2013 in its co-editors' view. The idea was that the presentations gave rise to editorials that, in analytical styl...

The regionalization of pediatric health care.

Regionalization of health care is a method of providing high-quality, cost-efficient health care to the largest number of patients. Within pediatric medicine, regionalization has been undertaken in 2 areas: neonatal intensive care and pediatric trauma care. The supporting literature for the regionalization of these areas demonstrates the range of studies within this field: studies of neonatal i...