PCICS Podcast

Our guests represent the top QI abstracts from the 2026 PCICS Conference in Austin, Texas.

Guest: Catherine Allan MD (Cleveland Clinic)
Abstract: Targeting Modification of Prescribing Practices in the ICU Setting to Reduce Central Line Entries

Guest: Ashley Frankel MSN-Ed RN (Stanford Medicine Children's Health)
Abstract: Practicing HAPI Habits - Take the Pressure Off!: Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury Reduction in the CVICU

Guest: Jennifer Sherwin MD (Duke Children’s Hospital; Duke University)
Abstract: Increasing Oral Feeding in Single Ventricle Neonates Prior to Stage 1 Palliation

Hosts: Rambod Amirnovin, MD (Elevance Health; Miller Children's Hospital); Jennifer Gauntt, MD (Nationwide Children's / Ohio State University SOM)

Editor: Rambod Amirnovin, MD (Elevance Health; Miller Children's Hospital)

Producer: Christopher L. Knoll, MD (Phoenix Children’s Hospital / University of Arizona COM)

The first in a 4 part collaboration with Pediatrica Intensiva honoring 50 plus years of the Fontan-Kreutzer Operation. Join hosts Dr. Greg Kelly (Children's Hospital at Westmead, Austrailia) and Dr. Deanna Todd Tzanetos (Norton Children's Hospital/U of Louisville) with guest Dr. Tom Glenn (Texas Children's Hospital) as they discuss the shifting focus from survival to quality of survival and then on to thriving and resilience.

Editor: Dr. Greg Kelly
Producer: Dr. Deanna Todd Tzanetos

Please join guests Drs. Nate Sznycer-Taub (UMichigan/C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital) and Asaad Beshish (Emory/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta) in discussing their landmark paper “Hyperoxia During Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Bypass Is Associated With Worse Clinical Outcomes: A Multi-Institutional Study” in JAHA 2025.

Host: Dr. Maria Batsis (Stanford/Stanford Children’s Hospital).
Co-host/Editor/Producer: Dr. Saidie Rodriguez (Emory/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta).
Sponsor: Children’s Hospital Colorado Heart Institute

Beshish, A. G., Kwiatkowski, D. M., Sznycer-Taub, N., Costello, J. M., Jergel, A., Gillespie, S., Cashen, K., Asfari, A., Batsis, M., Buckley, J. R., Chlebowski, M. M., Flores, S., Goldshtrom, N., Migally, K., Mills, K. I., Radman, M. R., Reddy, C., Shutes, B., Riley, C. M., Narasimhulu, S. S., … Collaborative Research from the Pediatric Intensive Care Society (CoRe‐PCICS) Investigators (2026). Hyperoxia During Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Bypass Is Associated With Worse Clinical Outcomes: A Multi-Institutional Study. Journal of the American Heart Association, 15(1), e045890. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.125.045890

Join Niranjan Vijayakumar, MBBS (Children's Mercy, Kansas City) and Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD, MSCI (Norton Children's Hospital/U of Louisville) as they speak with Bruna Cury, RN, MSN (CardioPedBrasil®️ – Children’s Heart Center, Hospital da Criança e Maternidade, Brasil) and Joram Nyandat, MMED (Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital/Tenwek Mission Hospital, Kenya) about their PCICS experience. We also speak with Lindsey Justice, DNP, CPNP-AC (Cincinnati Children's Hospital) about the foundation and how to donate, help, and apply for scholarships.

Hosts: Deanna Todd Tzanetos and Niranjan Vijayakumar
Editor: Niranjan Vijayakumar
Producer: Deanna Todd Tzanetos

Join hosts Kavi Komeswaran, MD (U of Mississippi) and Jennifer Gauntt, MD (Nationwide Children's Hospital/Ohio State University) as they discuss the recent article "Breastfeeding infants with CHD: an evidence summary and recommendations from the Cardiac Newborn Neuroprotective Network, a special interest group of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative" published in Cardiology in the Young in October, 2025 with guests Kristen Elgersma PhD, DM,MN,RN (University of Minnesota), Jessica Davis, PhD, RN, IBCLC (Healthy Start Inc.) and Jennifer Peterson, PhD, MS, BSN, RN, APRN-CNS, CCNS, CNE, FAHA.

Editor/Producer: Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD, MSCI (Norton Children's Hospital/U of Louisville)