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A Proposal for Training in Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia

James A. DiNardo, MD^*, Dean B. Andropoulos, MD, and Victor C. Baum, MD

From the *Department of Anaesthesia, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; and Department of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to James A. DiNardo, MD, Department of Anesthesia, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115. Address e-mail to james.dinardo{at}childrens.harvard.edu.

Abstract

Despite a relatively universally applicable knowledge base and skill set, training and experience in pediatric cardiac anesthesia in currently organized basic anesthesia and Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia fellowship programs are very limited and not uniformly available. Experience during Pediatric Anesthesia fellowship training is uniformly available but of limited duration and varying intensity. We present a schema, developed by a working group of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society, for training in pediatric cardiac anesthesia that pediatric cardiac anesthesia educators internationally should consider as a template to be modified as necessary.