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The Boston Adult Congenital Heart Service is a diverse, multidisciplinary team of physicians, fellows, and midlevel practitioners functioning to provide inpatient, acute and chronic care to adults with congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. The service encompasses the greater Longwood Medical Area and treats, consults, and admits individuals to three separate institutions:
Children's Hospital Boston
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
The decision regarding which institution to utilize for the primary site of inpatient care is based on the needs of each individual patient and is reevaluated on a regular basis depending on the particular areas of expertise that our required to best evaluate, diagnose, and treat each patient.
The inpatient team is available 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week and works in conjunction with specialists and the medical house-staff at each hospital to ensure complete and comprehensive care. Areas of expertise include:
aggressive heart failure management
ongoing care in the cardiac intensive care units
post operative care
cardiac catheterization and innovative interventional cardiology
diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension
and peri- and postpartum management in conjunction with high risk obstetricians.
The team collaborates directly with specialists -- such as electrophysiologists, cardiac surgeons, oncologists, gastroenterologists, hematologists, and nephrologists -- to coordinate multiple facets of patient care both in direct relationship to congenital heart disease, but also multiple aspects of general medical care that may carry slightly higher morbidity and complexity than the general population.
In addition to our direct medical and patient care services, the BACH team provides much needed teaching and education regarding the various congenital heart defects, interventions, and management to interns, residents, and fellows as well as patients and families.
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