Pediatric Subcommittee

The Pediatric Committee of the ICEBP has been invited to represent pediatric perfusionists on the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Congenital Database Taskforce and the Multi-Societal Database Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease.  This relationship has led to the Pediatric Committee’s involvement and contribution to the development of a complete list of uniform and standard definitions for complications secondary to congenital heart surgery.  The Pediatric Committee has been asked to focus on the complications associated with cardiopulmonary bypass, extracorporeal life support, and ventricular assist devices.  These definitions will allow for a standardized technique for measuring operative and postoperative complications, and create the tools necessary to measure, study, and quantify morbidity secondary to congenital heart surgery.  The results of this project will be published and provide useful tools for multi-institutional research and outcomes analysis.

Update! (September 2009)

Fall 2008, the ICEBP was invited by Dr. Jeffrey Jacobs to assist in the refinement and development of perfusion-related fields in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' Congenital Database. The Pediatric Subcommittee developed new variables for the next version of the Database that focused on the practice of congenital and pediatric perfusion. The recommendations for the 2010 STS Congenital Database were submitted to Dr. Jeff Jacobs (sent early March).

A presentation on this topic was provided by members of the ICEBP Pediatric Subcommittee at the STS Congenital Database Task Force Meeting held in San Francisco on January 24, 2009, and subsequently May 9, 2009 in Boston. A list of new variables and definitions was accepted (August 2009) for inclusion by the STS.