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About PICS Tips and Tricks

Need a quick and handy review of a novel technique or rare intervention? Want to know how leaders in pediatric and congenital cardiac interventions would approach a specific type of case? The PICS “Tips & Tricks” section provides congenital interventional cardiologists with nuanced, “real world” techniques from experienced leaders in our field.

These vignettes highlight their approaches to performing specific procedures, dealing with unique (or common) medical conditions, and meeting challenges. Our contributors pay special attention to the practical aspects of performing procedures, managing difficult situations, and the potential pitfalls we all encounter.

Of course every patient is different, thus these vignettes do not constitute official guidelines or policies of the PICS Society. Rather, our goal is to provide a global forum to exchange lessons learned, what has worked and “expecting the unexpected” amongst our far-flung but tight-knit community.

Each topic is written by a key opinion leader with specific expertise in the procedures, devices, techniques and types of patient involved. We work hard to make these vignettes accessible and succinct with illustrative case examples and references to make this an educational platform useful to you the practicing interventionalist. We are confident PICS members will find this series to be helpful no matter their experience levels.

We would love to hear about YOUR tips & tricks! Have one you would like to contribute? Contact us personally or via info@CHDinterventions.org

Thank you to all of our contributors and readers!

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