ChaserNews - Volume II Contents
Volume II, Issue IV (March, 1995); 16 pgs
(CHASER News article; CHASER's National 'Heart Parent' Survey - Results...Part I)
(personal account article)
by Lori Rogers with Marilyn Anglin
(42 photos of children with congenital heart disease - national CHD awareness campaign)
(reader request/letters)
Volume II, Issue III (Aug/Sept/Oct, 1994); 12 pgs (8 pg news, 4 pg insert)
(CHASER News article - CHASER's National 'Heart Parent' Survey, a national information gathering)
(4-page insert/pull-out questionnaire - survey topics include: geographic; medical; second opinions; support; insurance; health care)
(featuring Marshall L. Jacobs, M.D. - Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania/Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)
(39 photos of children with congenital heart disease - national CHD awareness campaign)
(reader request/letters)
Volume II, Issue II (May/June/Jul, 1994); 16 pgs
(informational resource article - University of Michigan Medical Center's TeleCare)
800-742-2300 -touch tone phones only
- The Arterial Switch Repair (part 1)
written by Edward L Bove, M.D. (University of Michigan/C.S. Mott Children's Hospital - Cardiac Surgery)
- The Rastelli Operation for Transposition of the Great Arteries (part 2)
written by Aldo R. Castaneda, M.D.; Richard A. Jonas, M.D.; and Redmond P. Burke, M.D. (Boston Children's Hospital - Cardiac Surgery)
- Systemic Right Ventricular Dysfunction and Tricuspid Incompetence: Conversion to the Arterial Switch (part 3)
(Educational/Informative article disclosing signs and symptoms of congestive heart failure in infants and children)
written by Anita K. Myers
(featuring Roger B. B. Mee, MB., Ch.B., FRACS - Director of Congenital Heart Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
(Comprehensive listing of medical conditions and diagnosis in need of networking opportunities)
(Resource listing of 13 helpful organizations and departments)
(book listing)
(8 photos of children with congenital heart disease - national CHD awareness campaign)
(reader request/letters)
Volume II, Issue I (Feb/March/April, 1994); 12 pgs
(Educational/Informative article - pediatric pacemaker implantation and uses, also Internal Cardioverter Defibrillator; table of International Pacemaker Codes; illus. & photos of pacemakers)
written by James H. Myers; edited by medical profession review (Univ. of Mich.)
(overview - risk - prevention)
written by Earnest G. Brookfield, M.D., Medical College of Ohio
(discusses common medications with pediatric heart patients; includes table of medications with FDA approval information)
written by Milap C. Nahata, Pharm.D., Ohio State University
(featuring Francisco J. Puga, M.D.; Professor of Surgery, Chair, Div. of Cardiothoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN)
(brief special interest and resource to Federal Information Center)
(4 photos of children with congenital heart disease - national CHD awareness campaign)
(reader request/letters)
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