Cardiac Group
Chairs
Professor Kate Brown has worked as a consultant in paediatric cardiac intensive care and ECMO at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2003 and is Professor and Deputy Head of Department at the Children’s Institute of Cardiovascular Science University College London
Katherine.brown@gosh.nhs.uk
Dr John Pappachan has been a consultant in cardiac and general PIC at Southampton Children’s Hospital since 2005 and is an Associate Professor in the Integrative Physiology and Critical Illness Group, Critical Care Research Area, Southampton NIHR Respiratory BRC
jvp@soton.ac.uk
Additional named roles within the SIG
KB – ECMO group and Study Group
JP – Study Group
Terms of reference
Children with heart disease are a key subpopulation amongst critically ill children, and as such, they have specific health care problems, health care needs and require dedicated multi-disciplinary care in order to ensure they experience the best possible clinical, psychological and longer-term outcomes.
The aims of Paediatric Intensive Care Society: Cardiac Sub-Group are to enable a forum of interested health care professionals from the multi-disciplinary team and provide a network for members to aid interprofessional communication to promote best practice and high-quality research.
Objectives
• To develop strategic and annual operational plans for education and training.
• To provide a forum for communication, education, resource development and hypothesis generation and the application for grant funding to facilitate quality improvement, audit and clinical trials, collaborating closely with PICCS SG.
• To explore and develop cardiac-specific quality assurance methods applicable to paediatric cardiac intensive care.
• To contribute to evidence-based guidelines and protocols applicable to paediatric cardiac intensive care patients.
• To provide peer group support through direct communication with other group members.
• To contribute cardiac content to national PICS training days.
• To establish links with other European and International cardiac care networks e.g. ESPNIC cardiac group and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society.
Achievements/activities
James Lind Priority Setting Partnership for Congenital Heart Disease is running from 2021-2022 led by Mr Nigel Drury Birmingham Children’s Hospital, the PCCS representative is Dr Kate Brown
Current projects
High Dependency for Children with Heart Disease, the leads are Jane Cassidy Birmingham Childrens Hospital and Dr Anke Furck Royal Brompton Hospital.
Cardiac critical care educational links Dr Ajay Desai Royal Brompton Hospital and Dr Mirjana Cvetkovic Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Multi-centre or collaborative cardiac research studies linked to PCCS Cardiac Subgroup:
GASTRIC PICU Trial No routine gastric residual monitoring to guide enteral feeding in Paediatric Intensive Care Units – Chief Investigator Prof Lyvonne Tume Edgehill University
https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Research/Studies/Current-Studies/Gastric-Picu/About
DESTINY trial comparing del Nido v St Thomas’ blood cardioplegia in children undergoing cardiac surgery- Chief Investigator; Mr Nigel Drury Clinician Scientist & Consultant in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of Birmingham.
https://www.bhf.org.uk/research-projects/del-nido-versus-st-thomas-blood-cardioplegia-a-multicentre-randomised-controlled-trial-in-children-u
Children OMACp (Outcome Monitoring and Risk Stratification after Cardiac Procedure in Neonates, Infants, Children and Young Adults born with Congenital Heart Disease)- Chief Investigator; Massimo Caputo BHF Professor of Congenital Heart Surgery, University of Bristol.
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/application-summaries/research-summaries/outcome-monitoring-after-cardiac-procedure-in-congenital-heart-disease/
CHAMPION Congenital Heart Audit: Measuring Progress In Outcomes Nationally; Chief Investigator, Professor Sonya Crowe, Clinical Operational Research Unit, University College London
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-operational-research-unit/research-domains/congenital-heart-disease-children-and-adults
CVD COVID IMPACT: British Heart Foundation COVID-19 Impact consortium; Chief Investigator, Professor Cathie Sudlow, Director of the BHF Data Science Centre
https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/projects/cvd-covid-uk-project/
Meeting minutes
No current minutes available
Upcoming meetings/events
• Meetings will be held a minimum of twice a year (once the day before the annual congress)
• Meetings are currently free although the group may charge for meetings and events should this be required. The Group may charge differential rates for events or activities for both members and non-members.
Useful links
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How to join
Please contact either Prof Kate Brown or Dr John Pappachan to comment or contribute to group activities, or contact the relevant listed parties directly.