Pediatric Heart Program

Children with acquired or congenital heart defects require highly specialized care by Pediatric Cardiologists equipped with the latest technology. Children’s Hospital of Georgia delivers that care through the area’s only Pediatric Heart Program.

The program treats hundreds of children under the age of 21 each month and offers:

• A team of Pediatric Cardiologists and a Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon and easy referrals to other pediatric specialists
• Comprehensive in-house diagnostics and the region’s only dedicated Pediatric Hybrid Cardiac Catheterization Suite
• An inpatient Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) with wireless telemetry monitoring
• An inpatient pediatric heart unit for patients who do not require intensive care staffed by nurses specially trained to manage heart patients
• The region’s only Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) technology and specialists to keep the hearts and lungs of critically ill children working for up to two weeks during healing
• Arrhythmia evaluation and management
• Pacemaker management
• Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery and Pediatric Anesthesiologists
• Registered dieticians, medical social workers and respiratory therapists
• Consultative Fetal Cardiology services
• Child Life Specialists to help children understand and cope with care
• Camp Strong Heart, a camp for pediatric heart patients