Contributing data to the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium since 2013, CHOP has participated in several studies led by various centers across the country looking at a wide variety of disease processes in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit.
A simple question raised by a concerned parent can often kick-start lines of research at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. This week in the news, those sorts of everyday queries - whether they're about how to breastfeed, why parents should follow a vaccine schedule, or how mechanical circulatory support devices work - led to exciting headline-making stories.