Heart Transplant with Dr. Warren Zuckerman & Dr. Gav Apfel--Part 2

About our Guests: 

Dr. Warren Zuckerman is an associate professor of pediatrics as well as the associate director of the pediatric cardiology division at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He completed both his pediatric residency and his cardiology fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is now a practicing pediatric cardiologist at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. His research interests include pediatric cardiomyopathies, donor- and recipient-related issues surrounding pediatric heart transplantation, and drug therapies for prevention and treatment of graft rejection following heart transplantation.

Gav Apfel is a CICU hospitalist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his residency training at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and will be joining the Columbia University’s critical care fellowship program in July 2023. He is interested in pursuing a career in cardiac intensive care. 

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to:

1. Describe the common indications for pediatric heart transplant.
2. Recall the goals of preoperative management of heart failure patients and medical optimization for heart transplant.
3. Recall the general surgical strategies for cardiac implantation. 
4. Recognize the key information provided in surgical and anesthesia handover that will affect postoperative management.
5. Recognize the common and important postoperative complications and develop an approach to their management.
6. Develop a mental framework of the expected postoperative CICU course with a focus on common or important barriers to ICU discharge.
7. Recall important long-term complications of heart transplant with an emphasis on those that might result in critical illness.