Apr 23, 2026
In the second episode of our Fontan at 50 short season with @PCICS, Dr. Peter Laussen (Boston Children's Hospital) joins Greg and Deanna Tzanetos for the long view on how the Fontan evolved and where it's heading next.
Peter traces the procedural arc — atriopulmonary, lateral tunnel, fenestration, extracardiac...
Mar 9, 2026
The first in a 4 part collaboration with PCICS (the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society) honoring 50 plus years of the Fontan-Kreutzer Operation and asking "How did we get here, and where are we going?" This episode features Dr. Tom Glenn from Texas Children's Hospital. Dr Glenn has an extraordinarily valuable...
Dec 5, 2024
Airway management remains the single highest risk time for our patients in pediatric ICU. Different studies of pediatric airway management report first pass success as low as 50%. Rates of severe desaturation as high as 20%, and significant rates of cardiac arrest ranging from two to 15% in the 30 minute...
Jul 11, 2024
This season is about airway management or airways that scare me and this episode, we discuss the respiratory unstable patient or the patient who's a "physiologically difficult airway" because they have bad lungs. We were incredibly lucky to have the amazing Robi Khemani from CHLA, a world expert on...
Feb 5, 2024
Children with complex airway surgery are airways that truly scare us. Though a small number of patients in pedsICU, they can stay a long time and are at risk of death and morbidity from their underlying conditions, co-existing conditions, their treatment and ICU acquired problems. Managing these patients requires a...