242 - CHALLENGING CASES IN ICU

Friday, October 24, 2025

2:00pm - 3:00pm ET

Room:204AB

Target Audience: General: All cardiovascular (clinical and research) health professionals, Pediatric cardiologists, Critical care practitioners

Co-Chair(s)

KH

Karen Harrington, MDCM, FRCPC, MScHFSS (she/her/hers)

Pediatric intensivist
CHU Sainte Justine
CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréa;
Cheryl Peters, MD

PEDIATRIC CARDIAC ANESTHESIOLOGIST AND INTENSIVIST
CCS, CANCARE, CPCA
BC Children's Hospital

Roxanne Kirsch, MD (she/her/hers)

PEDIATRIC CARDIAC INTENSIVIST
CCS
University of Toronto
Cheryl Peters, MD

PEDIATRIC CARDIAC ANESTHESIOLOGIST AND INTENSIVIST
CCS, CANCARE, CPCA
BC Children's Hospital
Gurmeet Singh, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FCCS

Associate Clinical Professor
University of Alberta
University of Alberta

Madeleine Böhrer, MD FRCPC (she/her/hers)

Pediatric Intensivist
IWK Health
Dalhousie University
Haley Christian, MD, FRCPC, M.Ed

PEDIATRIC CARDIAC INTENSIVIST
CCS/CANCARE/CPCA
University of Toronto
Rachel Deschamps, MD

Pediatric Intensivist
Centre Mère-Enfant Soleil du CHU de Québec - Université Laval
Université Laval
LD

Laurent Desjardins, MD

Pediatric Cardiologist
CHU de Quebec - UL
KH

Karen Harrington, MDCM, FRCPC, MScHFSS (she/her/hers)

Pediatric intensivist
CHU Sainte Justine
CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréa;
Lea Sfairy, MD (she/her/hers)

PGY4
Emergency Medicine
Laval University

Madeleine Böhrer, MD FRCPC (she/her/hers)

Pediatric Intensivist
IWK Health
Dalhousie University
IB

Ismail Bouhout, MD

Cardiac surgeon
Rachel Deschamps, MD

Pediatric Intensivist
Centre Mère-Enfant Soleil du CHU de Québec - Université Laval
Université Laval

KH

Karen Harrington, MDCM, FRCPC, MScHFSS (she/her/hers)

Pediatric intensivist
CHU Sainte Justine
CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréa;
Roxanne Kirsch, MD (she/her/hers)

PEDIATRIC CARDIAC INTENSIVIST
CCS
University of Toronto

Madeleine Böhrer, MD FRCPC (she/her/hers)

Pediatric Intensivist
IWK Health
Dalhousie University
IB

Ismail Bouhout, MD

Cardiac surgeon
Haley Christian, MD, FRCPC, M.Ed

PEDIATRIC CARDIAC INTENSIVIST
CCS/CANCARE/CPCA
University of Toronto
KC

Krystina Cloutier, Clinical nurse educator, pediatric critical care
Rachel Deschamps, MD

Pediatric Intensivist
Centre Mère-Enfant Soleil du CHU de Québec - Université Laval
Université Laval
LD

Laurent Desjardins, MD

Pediatric Cardiologist
CHU de Quebec - UL
KH

Karen Harrington, MDCM, FRCPC, MScHFSS (she/her/hers)

Pediatric intensivist
CHU Sainte Justine
CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréa;
FJ

Frederic Jacques

Cardiac surgeon
Roxanne Kirsch, MD (she/her/hers)

PEDIATRIC CARDIAC INTENSIVIST
CCS
University of Toronto
Michael Khoury, MD FRCPC

Pediatric Cardiologist - Heart Function and Transplant
CPCA
University of Alberta
Cheryl Peters, MD

PEDIATRIC CARDIAC ANESTHESIOLOGIST AND INTENSIVIST
CCS, CANCARE, CPCA
BC Children's Hospital
NP

Nancy Poirier, MD

Cardiac surgeon
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine
Gurmeet Singh, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FCCS

Associate Clinical Professor
University of Alberta
University of Alberta
BS

Ben Sivarajan, MD
Céline Thibault, MD, PhD

Physician
CHU Sainte-Justine
Université de Montréal

At the end of this session participants will be able to:

Recognize the importance of planning and interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of complex decision-making and implementation of high-stakes management plans for patients with a significant risk of poor outcomes;
Discuss the implications on relative quality of life over the long and short term in patients requiring high risk therapies for long term survival; and
Recognize the value of shared adult and pediatric cardiac expertise when evaluating a symptom common in adults and rare in children.