波士顿儿童宾森家庭心脏中心致力于为每位患者取得最佳的结果，并为每个家庭提供长期的支持。我们的队伍treats thefull spectrum of heart disorders，包括最稀有，最复杂的先天性心脏缺陷。
Our patients range frombabies still in the wombtoadults. They come to Boston Children’s from every part of the U.S., and from all over the world, for care that combines:
- the most advanced medical and surgical treatments
- 开创性的创新和发现
- partnerships with each family's local doctors and care providers
Why choose the Boston Children’s Benderson Family Heart Center?
With a team of more than 500 individual experts, including 12 cardiac surgeons and more than 80 cardiologists, the Boston Children’s Benderson Family Heart Center is the largest pediatric heart program in the country. We offernearly 30 sub-specialty programs，包括所有类型的先天性心脏病。我们的一些计划是如此专业，在其他任何地方都没有提供。每年，我们看到罕见疾病和遗传综合症的儿童比世界上任何其他机构都要多。
We’re also home to the largest小儿导管插入计划在该国，每年执行1,500多个程序。在许多情况下，我们能够使用介入的导管技术代替手术程序来治疗通常需要在其他机构进行心脏直视手术的疾病。
This size allows us to offer customized care, in more specialties, for every patient.
- 我们的队伍members have extensive training not only in pediatric cardiology, but also in treating all types of congenital heart disease.
- Our experts have developed one of the nation's top programs for adults with congenital heart conditions.
- Our doctors and nurses are pioneers in life-saving fetal cardiac interventions.
- We serve as a resource for all patients with congenital heart defects.
Unrivaled outcomes
Despite treating the most serious congenital heart conditions, the Benderson Family Heart Center has some of the best success rates in the world, withsurgical survival ratesthat approach 99 percent.
We’re always happy to speak with parents about our specific outcomes.
Our commitment to quality and safety
Our commitment to delivering exceptional care extends to quality and safety initiatives, too. Results of these initiatives include:
- a decrease in transplant cases because we have come up with new ways to treat conditions that used to require transplantation
- 由于我们的护理人员的精英经验水平
- 在导管插入和心律不齐过程中，患者的辐射暴露减少了
- a transfusion-free approach to surgery and intervention when possible
- fewer surgical procedures, because we use cardiac catheterization whenever possible
- a reduction in our patients’ average length of stay
- development of national standards for assessing quality and risk in the field, including the Risk Adjustment for Congenital Heart Surgery (RACHS), now in widespread use
Our innovative approach
创新在我们的患者的健康中起着至关重要的作用，而我们的本德森家庭心脏中心团队正在不断创造改善护理的新方法。几十年来，我们的心脏专家团队在心脏研究领域，开创性治疗方法以及心脏缺陷儿童的护理和治疗方面发挥了至关重要的作用。
Boston Children's is one of the top pediatric research centers in the world. The Benderson Family Heart Center has a track record of innovation and capabilities you may not find elsewhere. Our cardiologists and cardiac surgeons have led the way in developing groundbreaking surgical innovations, pushing boundaries and correcting ever more complex abnormalities.
Clinical innovations include:
- 3-D printing of the heart
- mitochondrial transplantation to boost failing hearts
- performing pulmonary valve replacements (PVRs) in the catheterization lab
- 使用经导管方法关闭早产婴儿的专利导管（PDA）