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About the Cardiac Center Video Series
In this video series learn about the Cardiac Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Parents, nurses and doctors, each from their unique perspective, talk about the work being done here. Use the links below to navigate through the series.
Videos in this Series
Transcript: The Frontier Before Us
Unknown Speaker: If you were born with complex heart disease prior to about 1980, you did not survive.
Thomas Spray, MD: We can expect the vast majority of our children who undergo complex procedures to not only survive the procedure, but to actually do well as they grow.
Elizabeth Proctor, Mother: They’re doing, you know, work every single day to figure out why these problems exist and how to fix them.
Sarah Tabbut, MD: It looks really good. This is where they made the hole. You can see the heart’s moving really well.
Gil Wernovsky, MD: The basic science in the clinical research areas are really wonderful. The families want to participate.
Thomas Spray, MD: Parents recognize that it’s very important to learn something to help future generations and to help other children.
Gil Wernovsky, MD: If we can collaborate with other large centers, especially in terms of research, we can answer questions much quicker.
Elizabeth Proctor: So I’ve never once questioned the fact that in 14 years, if Phoebe experiences a problem, they’re going to know what to do.
Gil Wernovsky, MD: The question I think I’m asked the most commonly by parents is "What does the future hold for these children?"
Victoria Vetter, MD: There’s so many different problems so much that we can do to treat the different types of heart disease, so much yet to be learned.
Gil Wernovsky, MD: The future is really wide open.
Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD: There will be likely valves that we can implant through a catheter.
Susan Nicolson, MD: Advanced imaging in the form of 3-D echo—
Gil Wernovsky, MD: Growing tissue valves—
Bernard Clark, MD: Bioengineering—
Gil Wernovsky, MD: Stem cell research—
Susan Nicolson, MD: New drugs that are constantly coming online—
Bernard Clark, MD: New medical therapies—
Victoria Vetter, MD: We want to not only treat the patients we have now, but make sure that the field continues to advance.
Susan Nicolson, MD: I think it’s a rare day where I come to work that either one of my patients, one of my colleagues, or both don’t teach me something new.
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