PROVIDENCE – Hasbro Children’s Hospital announced last week that it has expanded the scope of high-level cardiac services available at its Pediatric Heart Center to include on-site electrophysiology consultation and diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization.
The goal, the hospital said, is to allow more children to be cared for close to home.
Children with electrophysiology needs can get help managing complex cardiac rhythm disturbances, as well as pacemaker and defibrillator programming and management and pre-intervention assessment. They also can receive diagnostic and interventional catheterizations in the pediatric biplane catheterization laboratory at Rhode Island Hospital.
The new services are being provided with the help of two doctors affiliated with Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School: Dr. John K. Triedman and Dr. Audrey Chung Marshall, who will collaborate with local pediatric cardiologists at Hasbro Children’s Hospital.
Triedman, currently a pediatric electrophysiologist and associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, will provide electrophysiologic consultations. Marshall, a pediatric interventionalist and assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, will supervise the diagnostic and interventional catheterization program.
“We believe that the addition of these advanced cardiac services will improve the care of pediatric cardiology patients in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts while offering excellent care close to home,” Dr. James Ziegler, director of the Pediatric Heart Center, said in a statement. “We are very pleased to be able to expand our capabilities to better serve the young patients in our community who require specialized cardiac treatment.”
The Pediatric Heart Center at Hasbro Children’s Hospital – a division of Rhode Island Hospital – offers a wide range of outpatient and inpatient services at Hasbro Children’s and the Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. It is affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and also participates in clinical and basic science research programs. For more information, visit www.LifeSpan.org or call 444-4800.
