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Reply to Robert Vincent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2018

Thomas Krasemann ,
Felix Berger ,
Petru Liuba  and
John Thomson
Thomas Krasemann*
Affiliation:
Sophia Kinderziekenhuis, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Felix Berger
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum, Berlin, Germany
Petru Liuba
Affiliation:
Pediatric Heart Centre, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
John Thomson
Affiliation:
Leeds Congenital Heart Unit, Leeds, UK
*
Author for correspondence: T. Krasemann, MD, FRCP, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Sophia Kinderziekenhuis, Erasmus Medical Centre, Wytemaweg 80, 3015CN Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: 0031-10 7032188; E-mail: t.krasemann@erasmusmc.nl
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , June 2018 , pp. 796
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Dear Dr Vincent,

Thank you very much for your kind comments 1 on our paper.

We are fully aware that many excellent catheter programmes for CHD are currently being carried out in a work environment different from that envisioned in our paper.Reference Krasemann, Berger, Liuba and Thomson 2 It is good to know that such good quality of work can be delivered even in suboptimum circumstances. But thriving for the best care of our vulnerable patients we wanted to summarise the current knowledge over the optimum-knowing that it may not be possible to achieve this everywhere, in given local circumstances. However, as you rightly pointed out, we have to plan for the future, and we hope that our manuscripts help to set up future cathlabs (or refurbishment of current cathlabs) at the best possible level.

References

1. Vincent R. Commentary on the guidelines paper by Krasemann et al. Cardiol Young https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951118000264.Google Scholar
2. Krasemann, T, Berger, F, Liuba, P, Thomson, J. Recommendations for the configuration of a cardiac catheterization laboratory for the treatment of children with congenital heart disease. Cardiol Young https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951118000112.Google Scholar