Cardiac Critical Care

The Division of Cardiac Critical Care is dedicated to promoting excellence in the care of children with life-threatening, complex medical illnesses and critical care needs following surgery. Our mission is to provide:

• Exceptional patient- and family-focused, state-of-the-art clinical care of the highest quality to neonatal pediatric patients with congenital heart defects, to a full spectrum of heart disease.
• Outstanding educational opportunities in pediatric cardiac critical care medicine for our faculty, subspecialty fellows, residents, and medical students.
• A stimulating academic environment that promotes excellence in basic science, translational, and clinical research and in other scholarly activities for our faculty and subspecialty fellows.

For clinical care, the Division staffs a heart center intensive care unit (HCICU) at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital located in the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest medical center in the world. Since 2017, we have maintained the elite level of having better than expected outcomes. In fact, out of more than 97 centers in North America that publicly report their outcomes, our HCICU has the highest publicly reported expected mortality.