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Current Status of Training and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery Around the World: Proceedings of the Meetings of the Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
Tchervenkov, Christo I., Herbst, Claudia , Jacobs, Jeffrey P. , Al‐Halees, Zohair , Edwin, Frank , Finucane, Kirsten , Sandoval, Néstor , Sarris, George E. , Abdulgani, Hafil Budianto, Arboleda, Miguel, Bacha, Emile , Becker, Pedro, Boumzebra, Drissi, Cervantes, Jorge , Elgamal, Adel, Helvind, Morten, Jatene, Marcelo Biscegli , Lee, Cheul , Lotto, A , Najm, Hani K. , Overman, David M. , Rahmat, Budi , Reddy, Darshan , Sakamoto, Kisaburo , Sivalingam, Sivakumar , Stephens, Elizabeth H. , Tretter, Justin T. , Tweddell, James S., Vida, Vladimiro L. , Vosloo, S., Jonas, Richard A. , Sandoval, Nestor F , Sarris, George E , Manuel, Valdano , Samankatiwat, Piya , Tretter, Justin T , Truong, Nguyen Ly Thinh , Jacobs, Jeffery P , Dearani, Joseph A. , Fragata, José , Barron, David J , Cervantes, Jorge, Elgamal, Adel, Iyer, Krishna Subramony , Jun, Tae-Gook , Kirklin, James K. , Kreutzer, Christián , Maruszewski, Bohdan , Louis, James D. St. , Stellin, Giovanni , Zhang, Hao , Zheleva, Bistra
World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery | May 4, 2021 | Volume: 12 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 394-405
The optimal training of the highly specialized congenital heart surgeon is a long and complex process, which is a significant challenge in most parts of the world. The World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS) has established the Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery as a nonprofit organization with the goal of assessing current training and certification and ultimately establishing standardized criteria for the training, evaluation, and certification of congenital heart surgeons around the world. The Global Council and the WSPCHS have reviewed the present status of training and certification for congenital cardiac surgery around the world. There is currently lack of consensus and standardized criteria for training in congenital heart surgery, with significant disparity between continents and countries. This represents significant obstacles to international job mobility of competent congenital heart surgeons and to the efforts to improve the quality of care for patients with Congenital Heart Disease worldwide. The purpose of this article is to summarize and document the present state of training and certification in congenital heart surgery around the world.
Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Congenital Heart Surgery Programs Across the World: Assessment by a Global Multi-Societal Consortium
Protopapas, Eleftherios , Rito, Mauro Lo , Vida, Vladimiro L. , Sarris, George E. , Tchervenkov, Christo I., Tobota, Zdzisław, Zheleva, Bistra , Jacobs, Jeffrey P. , Stephens, Elizabeth H. , Tweddell, James S., Sandoval, Néstor , Bacha, Emile , Austin, Erle H. , Sakamoto, Kisaburo , Kurosawa, Hiromi, Halees, Zohair Y. Al, Jatene, Marcelo Biscegli , Lee, Cheul , Sharma, Rajesh , Hirata, Yasutaka , Cervantes, Jorge , O’Brien, James E. , Louis, James St., Taskforce, The COVID-19 International Congenital Heart Surgery, Jacobs, Jeffery P , Sandoval, Nestor F , Talwar, Sachin , Zheleva, Bistra , Maruszewski, Bohdan , Zhang, Hao , Dearani, Joseph A. , Iyer, Krishna Subramony , Edwin, Frank , Cervantes, Jorge L., Kirklin, James K. , Taskforce, The COVID-19 International Congenital Heart Surgery
World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery | August 26, 2020 | Volume: 11 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 689-696
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic currently gripping the globe is impacting the entire health care system with rapidly escalating morbidities and mortality. Although the infectious risk to the pediatric population appears low, the effects on children with congenital heart disease (CHD) remain poorly understood. The closure of congenital heart surgery programs worldwide to address the growing number of infected individuals could have an unintended impact on future health for COVID-19-negative patients with CHD. Pediatric and congenital heart surgeons, given their small numbers and close relationships, are uniquely positioned to collectively assess the impact of the pandemic on surgical practice and care of children with CHD. We present the results of an international survey sent to pediatric and congenital heart surgeons characterizing the early impact of COVID-19 on the care of patients with CHD.