Dr Tom Glenn: Surviving is Not Enough – Thriving with the Fontan

The first in a 4 part collaboration with PCICS (the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society) honoring 50 plus years of the Fontan-Kreutzer Operation and asking “How did we get here, and where are we going?” This episode features Dr. Tom Glenn  from Texas Children’s Hospital.  Dr Glenn has an extraordinarily valuable perspective as both a pediatric cardiologist at a world leading centre and someone living with a Fontan circulation. He offers amazing insights on the shifting focus from survival to quality of survival and then on to thriving and resilience and how we can rethink our attitudes and systems in ways that aid the natural resilience of our patients and families. Hint, it’s not about the echo…

Hosted by Dr. Greg Kelly (Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead, Australia) and Dr. Deanna Todd Tzanetos (Norton Children’s Hospital/U of Louisville)