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Hillner R, Perry L, Hill N, Badheka AV, Chivukula VK. EXCOR membrane motion analyzer (EMMA) to quantify and assess hemodynamic performance of the EXCOR pediatric heart assist device. Perfusion 2024:2676591241265052. [PMID: 39034158 DOI: 10.1177/02676591241265052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
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BACKGROUND Pediatric heart failure is associated with high mortality rates and is a current clinical burden. There is only one FDA approved pediatric VAD, Berlin Heart EXCOR, for treatment. Thrombo-embolic complications are a significant clinical challenge, which can lead to devastating complications such as stroke and impair efficient EXCOR function. Currently, clinicians perform largely qualitative periodic assessment of EXCOR operation by observing the motion of a rapidly moving membrane, which can be prone to human error and can lead to missing out on crucial information. METHODS In this study, we design and implement a quantitative early warning system for accurate and quantitative assessment of the EXCOR membrane, named EXCOR Membrane Motion Analyzer (EMMA). Using a combination of image analysis, computer vision and custom designed algorithm, we perform rigorous frame by frame analysis of EXCOR membrane video data. We developed specialized metrics to identify relative smoothness between successive peaks, time between peaks and overall smoothness indicators to quantify and compare between multiple cases. RESULTS Our results demonstrate that EMMA can successfully identify the motion and wrinkles on each video frame and quantify the smoothness and identify the phases of each cardiac cycle. Moreover, EMMA can obtain the smoothness of each frame and the temporal evolution of membrane smoothness across all image frames for the video sequence. CONCLUSIONS EMMA allows for a fast, accurate, quantitative assessment to be completed and reduces user error. This enables EMMA to be used effectively as an early warning system to rapidly identify device abnormalities.
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- Rachel Hillner
- Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Intensive Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Amdani S, Auerbach SR, Bansal N, Chen S, Conway J, Silva JPDA, Deshpande SR, Hoover J, Lin KY, Miyamoto SD, Puri K, Price J, Spinner J, White R, Rossano JW, Bearl DW, Cousino MK, Catlin P, Hidalgo NC, Godown J, Kantor P, Masarone D, Peng DM, Rea KE, Schumacher K, Shaddy R, Shea E, Tapia HV, Valikodath N, Zafar F, Hsu D. Research Gaps in Pediatric Heart Failure: Defining the Gaps and Then Closing Them Over the Next Decade. J Card Fail 2024; 30:64-77. [PMID: 38065308 DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2023.08.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Revised: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
Abstract
Given the numerous opportunities and the wide knowledge gaps in pediatric heart failure, an international group of pediatric heart failure experts with diverse backgrounds were invited and tasked with identifying research gaps in each pediatric heart failure domain that scientists and funding agencies need to focus on over the next decade.
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- Shahnawaz Amdani
- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Children's, Cleveland, Ohio.
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Children's, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiology, AORN dei Colli-Monaldi Hospital Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Heart Failure Unit, Department of Cardiology, AORN dei Colli-Monaldi Hospital Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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Zhang A, Zheng X, Shen Q, Zhang Q, Leng H. Family management experience of parents of children with chronic heart failure: A qualitative study. J Pediatr Nurs 2023; 73:e36-e42. [PMID: 37481387 DOI: 10.1016/j.pedn.2023.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 07/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/09/2023] [Indexed: 07/24/2023]
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PURPOSE To explore the experience of family management among parents of children with chronic heart failure. DESIGN AND METHODS Qualitative descriptive phenomenology was used as the research design. The sample included 16 parents. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were conducted. Colaizzi's seven-step analysis method was used for data analysis. Themes were encoded and created with Nvivo 12.0 Plus software. RESULTS Three themes and ten sub-themes were identified: (1) weakened family socialization (diminished parental role in social education and insufficient socialization of children), (2) experience of five psychological stages (resistance, self-blame, worry, exhaustion, acceptance), and (3) family management dilemmas (low social awareness of the disease, heavy economic burden, and limited coping style). CONCLUSION The experience of parents of children with chronic heart failure is complex. The children have low socialization and face public prejudice. Parents are stressed by social education, economics, and the five psychological stages they have experienced. Families face difficulties such as heavy economic burdens and limited coping styles. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS To address these complexities, pediatric nursing staff should take steps to improve family management and, as a result, children's quality of life. Our study provides a resource for pediatric nursing staff when implementing family management interventions.
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- Ai Zhang
- Department of Cardiology Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Nursing Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China.
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- Department of Nursing Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China
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- Department of Cardiology Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Nursing Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China
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Dai WS, Lin WH, Lin SH, Chen Q, Cao H. Postoperative health-related quality of life in children with congenital heart disease: a short-term follow-up study. J Cardiothorac Surg 2023; 18:17. [PMID: 36631875 PMCID: PMC9832600 DOI: 10.1186/s13019-023-02110-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore changes in health-related quality of life in children with congenital heart disease from pre-surgery to 6 months after surgery. METHODS A total of 87 children aged 2-12 years who underwent cardiac surgery in a provincial hospital in China from January 2021 to June 2021 were selected. After 6 months, the quality of life of all children was retrospectively analyzed. The Chinese version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 Scale was used to assess the quality of life of children before and after surgery. RESULTS Parents of 85 children and 33 children aged 5-12 years completed the questionnaires. After surgical treatment, the quality of life scores reported by parents of children of all ages were significantly higher than those before surgery, the P value < 0.05; the self-evaluated quality of life scores of children of different ages were significantly higher than those before surgery, the P value < 0.05. CONCLUSION Surgical treatment can improve the health-related quality of life of children with congenital heart disease.
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- Wang-Sheng Dai
- grid.256112.30000 0004 1797 9307Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fujian Children’s Hospital (Fujian Branch of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center), College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- grid.256112.30000 0004 1797 9307Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fujian Children’s Hospital (Fujian Branch of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center), College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- grid.256112.30000 0004 1797 9307Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fujian Children’s Hospital (Fujian Branch of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center), College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- grid.256112.30000 0004 1797 9307Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fujian Children’s Hospital (Fujian Branch of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center), College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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- grid.256112.30000 0004 1797 9307Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fujian Children’s Hospital (Fujian Branch of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center), College of Clinical Medicine for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
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