Children with heart disease still experience complications such as cardiac arrest during hospital stays despite modern advances in care. Researchers at the U-M Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and 14 other hospitals launched a new initiative, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Consortium (PC4), to help reduce this dangerous risk for young heart patients treated in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. Kurt Schumacher, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist at Mott and director of the PC4 Data Coordinating Center located at Michigan Medicine, discusses the Pc4 initiative and its importance.
