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PCICS Episode 150: PCICS QI Podcast - Top Abstracts 2025

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Show Notes

Our guests represent the top QI abstracts from the 2026 PCICS Conference in Austin, Texas.

Guest: Catherine Allan MD (Cleveland Clinic) Abstract: Targeting Modification of Prescribing Practices in the ICU Setting to Reduce Central Line Entries

Guest: Ashley Frankel MSN-Ed RN (Stanford Medicine Children's Health) Abstract: Practicing HAPI Habits - Take the Pressure Off!: Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury Reduction in the CVICU

Guest: Jennifer Sherwin MD (Duke Children’s Hospital; Duke University) Abstract: Increasing Oral Feeding in Single Ventricle Neonates Prior to Stage 1 Palliation

Hosts: Rambod Amirnovin, MD (Elevance Health; Miller Children's Hospital); Jennifer Gauntt, MD (Nationwide Children's / Ohio State University SOM)

Editor: Rambod Amirnovin, MD (Elevance Health; Miller Children's Hospital)

Producer: Christopher L. Knoll, MD (Phoenix Children’s Hospital / University of Arizona COM)

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