At Arkansas Children's Heart Institute, your care team is in your corner. From state-of-the-art technology to the art of caring, everything we do is centered around providing the best possible outcome for your family.
The more operations we do, the more experience we have, and experience is the key to good outcomes. STS considers ACH a high-volume surgical center with a large enough volume to ensure experience in treating all congenital cardiac lesions.
Cross-clamp time is the time in minutes during which the aorta is occluded (closed off) to allow surgical repair. During this time, oxygenated blood flow is stopped to the tissues being repaired. The lower the cross-clamp time, the lower the risk of complication.
Arkansas Children’s cross-clamp times are consistently shorter than the industry benchmark. This means our team has the skill to quickly and safely complete the surgical repair.
Less time in the hospital means more time at home with family. On average, our patient’s post-operative total length of stay across all categories is shorter at ACH compared to other national sites.
When it comes to treating your child, you are the biggest expert in the room. As a parent, you know your child best, and your experience and perspective are invaluable to the treatment plan.
Our interdisciplinary care team has a singular goal—doing what’s best for your child. We’ll coordinate all the details, from diagnosis to imaging to treatment to aftercare to follow-up monitoring-all to get your child home sooner.
At Arkansas Children’s Heart Institute, we’ve built our reputation on performing less-invasive procedures. We treat more than 600 cases each year in our Cath Lab, and our outcomes include one of the lowest mortality rates among cardiac centers of comparable size, and shorter length of stay than other national sites.
Source: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Database
Pediatricians deeply invest in the well-being of the children under their care. We understand how much trust they’re putting in our hands when they make a referral. That’s why we believe so strongly in thoughtful collaboration and frequent communication. We discuss the patient’s care before, during and after the procedure.
Because cardiovascular science never stops evolving, neither will we. Our researchers constantly monitor and study data from the people we care for and their insights fuel discoveries. With each innovation or lesson learned, our best practices keep getting better—and so does our ability to do more for your child.
Congenital heart disease is often a bigger challenge than just the heart itself. That’s why our approach
to cardiac care includes everything from social workers to nutritionists to neurologists.
These additional
resources are often critical to supporting the patient in every aspect of their lives—and we offer them all
under one roof at the Arkansas Children’s Heart Institute.
From diagnostic to interventional to electrophysiology tests
and procedures, our specially trained team performs more
than 600 cardiac catheterization procedures each year.
This
consistently high volume of cases has given our team the best
possible experience to provide exceptional outcomes.
Because some forms of congenital heart disease (CHD) often require
lifelong medical attention—and other
forms don’t show symptoms until adulthood—
Arkansas Children’s Heart Institute
provides personalized care to patients of
all ages.
Serving the entire region, the ACHD Program
currently cares for more than 1,100
patients—many of whom have been treated
at Arkansas Children’s since childhood.
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