Emerging Challenges for Children With Congenital Heart Disease and Other Critical Illnesses That Require Intensive Care as Infants

This educational activity consists of recorded presentations from 20th Annual National Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 4-6, 2011.
Do critical illnesses that require pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) treatment contribute to neurocognitive and functional morbidity in pediatric patients? Data from PICU survivors is beginning to accumulate and suggests that these patients may experience a degree of neurocognitive and functional morbidity after critical illness and treatment in the PICU. This presentation will determine the prevalence of functional limitations in pediatric patients with CHD and other critical illnesses and how the length of stay in the PICU can impact neurocognitive abilities.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this educational activity, participants should be able to

1. Restate the prevalence of functional limitations of pediatric patients with CHD and other critical illnesses.
2. Discuss potential future directions for research and clinical interventions related to cognitive impairments in pediatric intensive care unit survivors.

Faculty
Gil Wernovsky, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine;
Medical Director, Neurocardiac Care Program
Associate Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Director of Program Development and Staff Cardiac Intensivist, The Cardiac Center
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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This activity is sponsored by OptumHealth Education.

Commercial Support
This activity is supported by Allos Therapeutics, Amgen, Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc., Eisai, Novartis Oncology, Shire, Cephalon Oncology, Genentech, genzyme, Millennium, Novartis, Roche, sanofi aventis, National Marrow Donor Program, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Purdue, American Regent, CardioDx, cord blood registry, HeartWare, Janssen, and XDx.

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