Michaela and Nic were excited to welcome their first baby, Xander. The pregnancy was going smoothly until a growth scan at 32 weeks. Only a week before Christmas, Michaela was told her baby was in heart failure and she needed to get to a hospital that provided expert fetal and neonatal he needed.
Dr. Manu Madhok, trauma and emergency department physician at Children’s Minnesota, and his research team published a study that reveals non-White children experiencing cardiac arrest receive CPR from a bystander at a lower rate compared to White children.
If you see baby August today, it would be hard to tell the difficult road he’s already been on in his young life. Diagnosed in utero with Ebstein anomaly, August’s was able to beat the odds thanks to a comprehensive and multidisciplinary team of health care professionals.
Allison Kimmes is a mother of two, Kashton and Annistyn. In this blog, she outlines her family’s experience with the congenital heart defect Kasthon was born with.
May 24, 2018, 8 a.m. – 9 a.m., Minneapolis
Jack F. Price, MD
Children's Minnesota heart patient Lana was featured on WCCO-TV's Kylie's Kids.
Kara and Ryan Jaehnert learned before their son's birth that he had a congenital heart defect.
A new partnership between the pediatric cardiac teams at Children’s Minnesota and Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Kolkata aims to shorten that distance and reduce some of the disparities.
Lucia Halstrom has learned to thrive nearly two years after experiencing sudden cardiac arrest.
Gigi Chawla, MD, joined "WCCO Mid-Morning" to talk about kids and heart health.