The Bedside Cardiac Procedure, Once Requiring Transport of Fragile patients to a Catheterization Lab, is now performed directly in the NICU by Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Heart Institute Doctors, Reducing the Risks Associated with Moving Premature Infants
The team at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital’s Heart Institute has successfully performed the first traveling bedside transcatheter patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure on a 22-week-old premature infant weighing 800 grams within Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Fort Lauderdale, located on the campus of Broward Health Medical Center. Performed within the baby’s own isolette, interventional cardiologists are able to close the PDA without needing to transport infants and expose them to risks at such a fragile state.
The benefits to the bedside procedure that outweigh traditional methods involving moving the premature newborn from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to a Cath Lab include:…