PCICS Podcast
The Podcast for Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
We discuss various topics in pediatric cardiac intensive care, cardiology, cardiac surgery, and anesthesia. Episodes include challenging cases, new science, journal clubs, humanity topics, current events, education, and novel ICU therapies with guests from pediatric cardiac ICUs across the world and other leaders in the field. The PCICS Podcast is the official podcast of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society and is the longest-running podcast for pediatric cardiology and pediatric cardiac critical care. Executive Producers: David Werho, Saidie Rodriguez, Deanna Tzanetos.
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Sep 3, 2024 • 32min
PCICS Podcast Episode 114: CICU and CV surgery Conflict is Inevitable, Combat is Optional
Join us for a re-release of one of our most popular episodes on fostering teamwork and collaboration amongst the CICU and CV surgery.
Host/Editor: Saidie Rodriguez (Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory Univ)
Guests: Alaa Aljiffry (Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory Univ) and Subi Shashidharan (Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory Univ).
Producers: Saidie Rodriguez/Deanna Todd Tzanetos (Norton Healthcare/U of Lousiville)
Aug 15, 2024 • 30min
PCICS Podcast Episode 113: Partial Heart Transplantation
Guests Dr. Douglas Overbey, Dr. Katie Cashen, and Dr. Erin Shea from Duke University discuss partial heart transplantation of pediatric semilunar valves.
Co-hosts Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD, MSCI and Misty, Ellis, DNP,APRN, CPNP-AC/PC (Norton Children's Hospital/U of Louisville)
Editor/Producer: Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD, MSCI (Norton Children's Hospital/U of Louisville)

Aug 1, 2024 • 46min
PCICS Podcast Episode 112: Pediatric Cardiac Medical Trip to Suriname, South America
Please join this conversation with guests Renze Jongstra, RN and Juan Hugo, perfusionist and Peter Roeleveld, Md, PhD from Leiden University Medical center on the joys and challenges of a pediatric cardiac short term medical trip to Suriname in South America.
Host/Editor/Producer: Saidie Rodriguez, MD (CHOA/Emory)

Aug 1, 2024 • 27min
PCICS Podcast Episode 111: NewsTalk - Interview with PCICS Past President Dr. David Cooper
Join the NewsTalk team as we discuss with Dr. Cooper his time in leadership of PCICS including the history of the society, lessons in leadership, opportunities for growth, and some of the behind-the-scenes aspects of running a medical society.
Guest: David Cooper
Co-Hosts: Jill Zender, Lillian Su
Host/Editor/Producer: David Werho.

Jul 1, 2024 • 44min
PCICS Podcast Episode 110: PCICS NewsTalk - PCICS International Expansion & Upcoming Events
PCICS NewsTalk - PCICS International Expansion & Upcoming Events: Join your PCICS Executive Committee and Program Chairs live from WFPICCS in Cancun, Mexico as we discuss the Latin American PCICS events, the upcoming international expansion, and our upcoming meetings in Brazil and San Diego. It's a fun and unfiltered discussion with a lot to look forward to.
Host/Editor/Producer: David Werho
Guests: David Cooper, Lindsey Justice, Jill Zender, Lillian Su, Carly Scahill
Jun 14, 2024 • 52min
PCICS Podcast Episode 109: Milrinone, Trash or Treasure?
Join hosts Chris Knoll, MD and Lillian Su, MD both of Phoenix Children's Hospital as they interview their guests, John Kheir, MD and Jim DiNardo, MD, both of Boston Children's Hospital who discuss their paper, "Administration of Milrinone Following Tetralogy of Fallot Repair Increases Postoperative Volume Administration Without Improving Cardiac Output" published in Nov 2023 in Anesthesia and Analgesia. They don't shy from controversy and discuss the risks and benefits of milrinone, particularly in RV restrictive disease such as TOF and why norepinephrine should be making a comeback into all our CVICU's! Put your thinking caps on for this one and join the debate.
Editor: Chris Knoll, MD
Producer Lillian Su, MD
Jun 3, 2024 • 39min
PCICS Podcast Episode 108: Cardiac Arrest Prevention
Join host Lillian Su, MD (Phoenix Children's Hospital) as she interviews Christine Riley, NP, CPNP-AC, PhD (Children's National Healthcare System) about building infrastructure in teams and systems to help prevent cardiac arrest in our most fragile CVICU patients. She discusses early work in DC in the cardiac arrest prevention bundle initially designed as a post cardiopulmonary bypass bundle and how sustainable success only came when the entire team was engaged in the process, particularly the crucial role of the bedside nurse. She also discusses her PhD work on overwhelming stress states and their role in cardiac arrest.
Editor: L. Su
Producer L. Su
Links: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35071961/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35757944/
May 15, 2024 • 48min
PCICS Podcast Episode 107: Interview with Ritu Asija, MD and Michael MA, MD
Join hosts Chris Knoll, MD and Lillian Su, MD both of Phoenix Children's Hospital as they interview Ritu Asija, MD and Michael Ma, MD of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (Stanford University) about their paper "20-Year Experience With Repair of Pulmonary Atresia or Stenosis and Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries" published in September 2023 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. They discuss the Stanford approach to pre-operative evaluation, post operative management tips and the extensive resources their Heart Center has devoted to this rare and complex disease.
Editor Chris Knoll (Phoenix Children's Hospital)
Producer Lillian Su (Phoenix Children's Hospital)
May 1, 2024 • 33min
PCICS Podcast Episode 106: QI Leadership & Collaboration
How do we build collaborative teams? How do we motivate our team members, even those less enthusiastic about an ongoing QI project? What are ways to get and give feedback to our teams? We are joined by a panel of quality improvement experts who help us explore these questions and more. Drawing from their depth of experience in both local projects, and projects spanning across multiple centers, our panel provides invaluable insights. Join us for an enriching discussion with guests Josh Koch, MD (Phoenix Children’s Hospital / University of Arizona College of Medicine), Melissa Winder, CPNP-AC (Primary Children’s Hospital / University of Utah), and Kimberly DiMaria DNP, CPNP-AC (C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital / University of Michigan).
Hosts: Rambod Amirnovin, MD (Elevance Health; Miller Children's Hospital); Jennifer Gauntt, MD (Nationwide Children's / Ohio State University SOM)
Editor: Rambod Amirnovin, MD
Producer: Lillian Su, MD (Phoenix Children's Hospital)

Apr 15, 2024 • 53min
PCICS Podcast Episode 105: Digital Storytelling
Please join us for this touching conversation around the power, healing and versatility of narrative medicine with special guests: Kristina McGuire, a CHD parent, nurse, and digital storytelling facilitator who has a story about the moment she realized she needed to be a parent not her son's nurse; Dr. Daisy Dulay, a cardiologist who created a digital story about recovery from burnout and Kristy Wolfe, a CHD parent, Digital Storyteller, Photographer and Speaker & Facilitator.
Co-hosts: Drs. Chris Knoll (Phoenix Childrens) and Ninja Vijayakumar (Children’s Mercy).
Host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Saidie Rodriguez (Emory/CHOA),


