Directory of Pediatric Services

The Joseph S. Bruno Pediatric Heart Center, located in the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children, links with the adult congenital heart surgery facilities at UAB. The two are connected by the Women and Infants Center, which allows easy access to the Pediatric Cardiology Clinic, as well as UAB’s high-risk obstetric birthing suites and regional neonatal intensive care unit. We provide a unique single

Cardiovascular Services

platform continuum of care for fetal, neonatal, pediatric and adult patients with congenital heart disease.

The center offers: • Complex repair of pediatric congenital heart disease • Treatment for acquired heart disease • Treatment for advanced heart failure • Ventricular Assist Device implantation and management • Cardiac transplantation • Treatment for pulmonary hypertension • Fetal cardiology • Electrocardiograms • Echocardiography • Exercise testing • Cardiac CT angiography • Cardiac MRI • Cineangiography • Catheterization laboratories (includes interventional catheterizations) • Cardiac Electrophysiology • Three-dimensional electrophysiologic mapping, which minimizes radiation • Hybrid catheterization lab (both a cath lab and surgical suite) • Dedicated same-day and post-anesthesia care unit • Heart-specific operating rooms • State-of-the-art 20-room Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit • ECMO suites (four dedicated to pediatric heart/lung bypass treatment) • Easy access to the UAB high-risk obstetric birthing suites and regional neonatal intensive care unit

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