Healthcare IT News January 2, 2025
Andrea Fox

For seven years, the cardiac surgical team has leveraged computational fluid dynamics software to provide consistent preoperative planning for pediatric congenital heart disease patients and improve outcomes. Sharing workflows is reaching more patients.

By using computational fluid dynamics software and other modeling techniques for complex congenital heart disease patients, Boston Children’s Hospital’s pediatric cardiology team said it now better understands flow balance and characteristics in preoperative planning and is improving surgical decision-making and patient outcomes.

Turning to CFD for decision support

As a parent, when finding out your child’s heart does not work perfectly, you turn to the most gifted surgeons you can find to fix and patch the flow pathways. While there are many different types of pediatric heart...

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