Kevin G. Friedman, MD, and Mark E. Alexander, MD Chest pain and syncope are common in
children, accounting for numerous provider visits and leading to a considerable amount of …

Chest pain in children and adolescents frequently involves referral to a pediatric
cardiologist. The etiology of chest pain in pediatrics is broad, and the vast majority of cases …

Abstract The American College of Cardiology (ACC) participated in a joint project with the
American Society of Echocardiography, the Society of Pediatric Echocardiography, and …

Variability in medical practice in the United States leads to higher costs without achieving
better patient outcomes. Clinical practice guidelines, which are intended to reduce variation …

Exercise testing plays an increasingly important role in the diagnosis and assessment of
heart disease and lung disease in children and adolescents. In Cardiopulmonary Exercise …

Introduction Standardization of care can reduce practice variation, optimize resource
utilization, and improve clinical outcomes. We have created a standardized clinical …

Chest pain is a relatively common cause of admission to the Emergency Department, being
related in most of the cases to benign conditions with only a minority of the cases affected by …

Background Pediatric syncope is common. Cardiac causes are rarely found. We describe
and assess a pragmatic approach to these patients first seen by a pediatric cardiologist in …

Objective To evaluate the impact of a pediatric emergency department (ED) chest pain
clinical pathway on resource utilization. Methods Motivated by perceived overuse of …

Pediatric appropriate use criteria (AUC) were recently published for initial outpatient
transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). The purpose of this study was to determine the effect …