Trips: Caribbean Heart Menders

Trips: These are a few of the great trips we have taken.

Interventional Cardiac Catheterization in Trinidad and Tobago.

In January of 2005, two pediatrics cardiologists from south Florida, Dr. Alvaro Galindo, interventional Pediatric cardiologist at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital and Dr. Scarlet Sinistera, Pediatric cardiology fellow, spent one week in Trinidad and Tobago performing interventional catheterizations in children with congenital heart defects. A total of ten pulmonary valvuloplasty were performed.

Project Haiti Heart

Haiti is the poorest Caribbean country in the western hemisphere and cardiac care for Haitian children with congenital heart defects is very limited. In July of 2004, Drs. Ming Young and Serge Geffrard formed Project Haiti Heart to provide cardiac care for children in Haiti with congenital heart defects. In September of 2004, Project Haiti Heart became part of CHMA. In October of 2004 CHMA supported the first trip to Haiti.

Heart Surgery in Jamaica

Every year, CHMA supports a surgical trip to the island of Jamaica. In February of 2004, a team from South Florida made of up of ten health care professional including pediatric cardiac surgeon, anesthesiologist, cardiac intensivist, nurses, respiratotory therapists, and perfusionists spent one week at Bustamonte Hospital for Children in Kinston. Ten heart surgeries were performed during the week.

Heart Surgery and Interventional Cardiac Catheterization in the Dominican Republic

Since 2003, CHMA has sponsored a surgical and interventional cardiac catheterization one-week long trip to the Dominican Republic. Our team performed heart surgery and catheterization at Clinica Corazones Unidos in Santo Domingo and in Santiago. In 2004, our team performed nine heart surgeries and ten interventional cardiac catheterizations.