PedsCrit

About our Guests: Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE , is division chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Balamuth’s research interests focus on pediatric sepsis recognition using epidemiologic and translational approaches, for which she has received NIH and foundation funding. She is the co-PI of the PROMPT BOLUS trial, a multinational pragmatic trial comparing saline vs balanced fluids in pediatric sepsis, which will be the largest acute care pediatric

Learn more about the ACTION learning network at this link. About our Guest: Tanya Perry, DO, is the director of the VAD Program at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from Nova Southeastern University and completed her pediatric critical care fellowship training at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, followed by pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where she subsequently practiced for 3 years as a cardiac intensivist. Dr. Perry’s cli...

About our Guest: Tanya Perry, DO, is the director of the VAD Program at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from Nova Southeastern University and completed her pediatric critical care fellowship training at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, followed by pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where she subsequently practiced for 3 years as a cardiac intensivist. Dr. Perry’s clinical and research efforts are focused on improving outcomes in chil

Robert Pass is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital. He is Co-Director of the Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Heart Center and Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology at the Mount Sinai Health System. In addition to his exceptional clinical work as an electrophysiologist, he is the host of the very successful medical education podcast Pediheart: Pediatric Cardiology Today.

About our Guests: Catherine Ross, MD, is a pediatric critical care physician in the Division of Medical Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She serves on the joint American Heart Association (AHA) and American Academy of Pediatrics national writing group for Pediatric Advanced Life Support 2025 guidelines as well as the AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science Subcommittee and Pediatric Emphasis Group. Her research interests lie i

Dr. Merritt Tuttle is both a Pediatric Intensivist and Medical Toxicologist at Brenner Children's Hospital in North Carolina associated with Atrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health. She completed her Pediatric Critical Care and Medical Toxicology training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Learning Objective: By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to discuss an evidence based and expert guided approach to the evaluation and management of the critically ill child with calc...