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The Heart Center Update

Published quarterly for pediatric cardiologists ? Estimated Read Time: 9 minutes

ECMO support for H1N1 patients

University of Minnesota Amplatz Children?s Hospital ? along with the University of Minnesota Medical Center ? has a plan to handle the anticipated influx of patients who have H1N1 and influenza. For patients with severe respiratory distress due to H1N1 and the flu, the hospital has expanded its extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) capacity.

Patient eligibility

In general, patients at University of Minnesota Amplatz Children?s Hospital are eligible for ECMO support if they have a reasonable chance of survival, Murray score greater than three, and have not responded to alternative treatments. Patients are ineligible for ECMO support if they have counter indications to heparin, severe neurological injuries or malignancies. Continues on page 4-->

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New Pediatric Heart Clinic opens

January 2010 Vol. 3, issue 1 Parvin Dorostkar, M.D., M.S., M.B.A. (pictured), and Lee Pyles, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.C.C., ? two of the Best Doctors in America® ? now see patients at the new Pediatric Heart Clinic at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minn. In December 2009, University of Minnesota Amplatz Children?s Hospital opened the Pediatric Heart Clinic at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minn. The clinic offers general pediatric cardiology services including echocardiograms (echos) and fetal echos. University of Minnesota Amplatz Children?s Hospital pediatric cardiologists, Lee Pyles, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.C.C., and Parvin Dorostkar, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., staff the clinic. Pyles provides fetal echos, and consultations for diagnosis and treatment of pediatric congenital and acquired heart disease.. His clinical interests include emergency medical services, congenital heart defects, Kawasaki disease, rheumatic fever and endocarditis. Pyles received his medical degree from West Virginia University School of Medicine, and completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Minnesota. His current research includes the Midwest Emergency Medical Services for Children Information System (MEMSCIS) for Inborn Errors of Metabolism, a database for emergency-care providers of medical information on children with special needs. At the new clinic, Dorostkar provides services for electrophysiology; and consultations for diagnosis and treatment of palpitations, syncope, heart-rhythm abnormalities, and Continues on page 5-->

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