Cardiology in the Young: Volume 9 -

Paediatric cardiology at the edge of the millennium and quality assessment
Otto Daniëls
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19 August 2008, pp. 230-232
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To achieve good and responsible medical care, not only is it necessary to legislate to control training, the institutes responsible for training, and continuing medical education, but it is also necessary to document ratings of mortality and morbidity as well as measures of workload for those providing care. We, as an Association for Paediatric Cardiology, must be more active in this process, and in politics, so as to convince the patients and the authorities that these processes are necessary, and to obtain the financial requirements to permit them to be achieved. Much has still to be done.

Sudden death in an adult with a small ventricular septal defect and an aneurysmal membranous septum
B Sarubbi, L M Gerlis, S Y Ho, J Somerville
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19 August 2008, pp. 99-103
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An apparently healthy man of 26 years of age suddenly died. He was known to have had a small ventricular septal defect and complete right bundle branch block from early childhood. At post-mortem examination the small ventricular septal defect was found associated with an aneurysm of the membranous septum. Histological examination showed a normal atrioventricular node and bundle, adjacent to the aneurysm. There was fibrous interruption at the commencement of the right bundle branch, which was considered the basis of the bundle branch block. It was also considered that the right bundle branch block was of the hereditary type and that this, rather than the aneurysm of the membranous septum, was responsible for the unexpected death.

Helen Brooke Taussig MD May 24, 1898 to May 21, 1986
Catherine A. Neill, Edward B. Clark
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19 August 2008, pp. 104-108
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The life and accomplishments of Helen Taussig are reviewed at the centennial of her birth in 1898. Now, a little over 50 years since the first Blalock Taussig shunt in 1944, her legacy remains a model of brilliant scientific innovation and loving patient care.
“Faithful indeed is the spirit that remembers” (Emily Bronte, Remembrance)

Cardiology in the Young