Contact the PC⁴ Coordinating Center at the University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital to:
Jennifer Schuette, MD, MS
Co-Executive Director, schuette@jhu.edu
Nikhil Chanani, MD Co-Executive Director, chananin@kidsheart.com
Kim Gonzalez, Project Manager, gonzaleb@med.umich.edu
PC4 Coordinating Center
University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
1540 W Hospital Dr
Ann Arbor, MI, 48109
The Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC⁴) aims to improve the quality of care to patients with critical pediatric and congenital cardiovascular disease in North America and abroad. Formed in 2009 with National Institutes of Health funding, PC⁴ is a unique collaborative of leaders in pediatric cardiac critical care, cardiac surgery, and cardiology representing a diverse group of over 60 children’s hospitals across the globe caring for these vulnerable patients. The core pillars of collaborative quality improvement serve as the foundation for PC⁴. Using these pillars, we have been able to improve a variety of outcomes in these children, including the prevention of complications, such as cardiac arrest, and saving hundreds of children’s lives in our member centers.
Quality Improvement Program Sustainable Prevents Cardiac Arrests in Pediatric ICUs, Sep 30, 2024; Healio: Quality improvement program sustainably prevents cardiac arrest in pediatric ICUs (healio.com)
Prevention Bundle Reduces Cardiac Arrests in Pediatric ICUs, July 29, 2022; Healio: Prevention ‘bundle’ reduces in-hospital cardiac arrest in pediatric ICUs (healio.com)
Speeding Up Recovery for Children Undergoing Heart Surgery, Nov 18, 2019; Michigan Health News:
https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/rounds/speeding-up-recovery-for-children-undergoing-heart-surgery
Reducing Cardiac Arrests Among Pediatric Heart Patients, Nov 18, 2019; Michigan Health News:
https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/rounds/reducing-cardiac-arrests-among-pediatric-heart-patients
Critical Pediatric Heart Deaths Drop by 24% at Hospitals With Cardiac ICUs, Nov 25, 2019; Michigan Health News:
https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/rounds/critical-pediatric-heart-deaths-drop-by-24-at-hospitals-cardiac-icus
Breaking Down Barriers in the Fight Against Congenital Heart Disease, Sep 13, 2019;
https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/rounds/breaking-down-barriers-fight-against-congenital-heart-disease
Improving ECMO Strategies, Outcomes for Children with Critical Cardiac Disease, Mar 19, 2017;
https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/body-work/improving-ecmo-strategies-outcomes-for-children-critical-cardiac-disease
Alten J, Cooper DS, Klugman D, Raymond TT, Wooton S, Garza J, Clarke-Myers K, Anderson J, Pasquali SK, Absi M, Affolter JT, Bailly DK, Bertrandt RA, Borasino S, Dewan M, Domnina Y, Lane J, McCammond AN, Mueller DM, Olive MK, Ortmann L, Prodhan P, Sasaki J, Scahill C, Schroeder LW, Werho DK, Zaccagni H, Zhang W, Banerjee M, Gaies M; PC4 CAP Collaborators. Preventing Cardiac Arrest in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Through Multicenter Collaboration. JAMA Pediatr. 2022 Oct 1;176(10):1027-1036. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.2238. PMID: 35788631; PMCID: PMC9257678. Preventing Cardiac Arrest in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Through Multicenter Collaboration | Cardiology | JAMA Pediatrics | JAMA Network
Gaies M, Pasquali SK, Banerjee M, et al. Improvement in Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Outcomes Through Interhospital Collaboration. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 Dec 3;74(22):2786-2795. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.09.046. PMID: 31779793; PMCID: PMC6981276. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31779793/
DeWitt AG, Rossano JW, Bailly, DK, et al. Predicting and Surviving Prolonged Critical Illness After Congenital Heart Surgery, Critical Care Medicine: July 2020 – Volume 48 – Issue 7 – p e557-e564 doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004354. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32574468/
Hart SA, Tanel RE, Kipps AK, et al. Intensive Care Unit and Acute Care Unit Length of Stay After Congenital Heart Surgery. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 Oct;110(4):1396-1403. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.01.033. Epub 2020 Feb 28. PMID: 32114048. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32114048/
Lasa JJ, Gaies M, Bush L, et al. Epidemiology and Outcomes of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure in Children. Circ Heart Fail. 2020 Apr;13(4):e006101. doi: 10.1161/ CIRCHEARTFAILURE.119.006101. Epub 2020 Apr 17. PMID: 32301336; PMCID: PMC7169981. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32301336/
A full list of our publications can be found here: https://pc4quality.org/news-publications/
The PC⁴ Story – Past, Present, Future
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-18-the-pc4-story-past-present-future/id1253068670?i=1000507756694
The PC⁴ Cardiac Arrest Prevention Project https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-65-pc4-cardiac-arrest-prevention-project/id1253068670?i=1000568874574
Interhospital Collaboration Improves Congenital Heart Surgical Outcomes
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pediheart-podcast-96-interhospital-collaboration-improves/id1341472214?i=1000498801038
PC⁴: Saving Lives in Cardiac Critical Care
https://youtu.be/YEkNI4OqGfI
Congenital Heart Disease Treatment: Breaking Down Barriers to Improve Care
https://youtu.be/jkAeYACBQj0
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