MHS Grand Rounds & RSS

he management of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and other cerebrovascular lesions is challenging. The rupture rate of an AVM is approximately 3% (2). The goal of treatment is to prevent a hemorrhage. This is achieved by getting obliterationof the nidus. The treatment for these lesions involves neurosurgery, radiation oncology as well as endovascular surgeons. (2) Treatment options include microsurgery, embolization and radiosurgery as well as multimodal approaches (2). Decisions on whether...

Cardiac/echocardiography conferences where a multidisciplinary team reviews the status of prenatal patients for cardiac interventions and/or cardiac surgery. We will present mothers that are pregnant with fetuses that are known to have congenital heart defects that will need management and/or Intervention by the JDCH cardiology team. These conferences also act as a didactic session for new techniques that are being used in the area of pediatric cardiac interventions/surgery.

This series will discuss evidence-based advances in care in anesthesiology and perioperative medicine. Topics include but are not limited to: preoperative assessment and risk mitigation, advances in intraoperative care and monitoring, advances in pain management, pharmacology and physiology, and anesthesiology and procedural sedation outside the operative room.