Cardiac Critical Care

Module Lead: Dr Veena Rajagopal

Core all pathways - 15 credits

Aims

• To teach participants the physiological principles of paediatric patients with common forms of cardiac disease
• To cover common forms of congenital cardiac disease
• To provoke challenging ethical debate regarding management of paediatric cardiac disease in the UK and internationally
• To educate participants on the presentation and early management of congenital and acquired cardiac disease in children, to a level consistent with consultant paediatrician

Students' will also critically review literature and latest advancements in the field, and present this in a poster with an oral session.

Outline

The module will cover:

• Introduction to paediatric cardiology  and  intensive care - embryology, antenatal and neonatal circulation, physiology
• Heart failure - physiology and pharmacology, including cardiomyopathy
• Congenital cardiac lesions - postnatal presentation and early management relevant to the general paediatrician of specific lesions including; left heart obstruction, mixing lesions including TAPVD and TGA, left to right shunt, right heart obstruction, patent ductus
• Cardiopulmonary bypass
• Arrhythmia management
• Ethics and future directions of cardiac intensive care

Method of assessment 

Students will need to create  a poster on a topic relating to paediatric cardiology or cardiac intensive care and including an up-to-date  literature review.

There will be an oral presentation of the topic to examiners and student group.