ELSO Award for Excellence in Life Support

Cook Children's Medical Center

Fort Worth, TX

Through September 2010

About ELSO

ELSO would like to recognize Cook Children's Medical Center for receiving the Award for Excellence in Life Support!

One of the reasons Cook Children's Medical Center was found noteworthy as specified by the ELSO Award Committee is:

You are awarded this continuing honor based on many aspects of your excellent program. You have amazing rehabilitation services available for your ECMO patients. Bedside nurses must complete a 4 hour didactic course to provide care to an ECMO pe. One physician to cover the ecmo patient during cannulation We budget for every specialist to attend an outside meeting (ELSO, Keystone, or SEECMO every other year. Our team has team meetings every other month and newsletters in the odd months, covering any new information from literature, conferences and other learning opportunities. Recent cases are discussed and if available, ELSO statistics are reviewed. In March of every year, we have a full day, full team meeting/training session. The March meeting is mandatory, as well as attendance/ participation in of 10 of the 12 meeting/newsletter opportunities. Water labs are scheduled and available every 3 months. We have mandatory water labs any time a new piece of equipment or new procedure is introduced and a major troubleshooting waterlab in the yearly meeting, usually including timed events. Water labs are mandatory for specialists with less than 24 hours pump time in the previous quarter.

Specifically, the below mentioned staff have been instrumental in Cook Children's Medical Center's outstanding achievements.

Dr Chanda Simpson, MD Director of Neonatal ECMO
Dr Robert Caballero, MD Director of Pediatric ECMO
Ryan M Wolf, RRT-NPS ECMO Coordinator
Laurie Fenton, RNC Assistant ECMO Coordinator
Darren Barton, RRT
Jennifer Benton, RN
Teri Lynn Bjornlie, RRT
Katherine Bundy, RN
Troy Crain, RN
Toni Tucker, RN
Floyd Collins, RN
Rhonda Dieter, RN
Brad Dunn, RN
Wendy Dougherty, RN
Khala Hart, RN
Maria Stewart, RRT
Rebekah Kimsey, RN
Pat Klinger, RN
Elizabeth Kelly, RN
Misty Nicholson, RN
Tiffany Moore, RN
Rose Russ, RN
Lisa Scarbrough, RN
Kristy Smith, RN
Nicole Tulburt, RN
Shaye Whitmire, RRT
Jim Kubecka, RN
Dena Casey, RN
Rosa Boyett, RN
Lea Thomas, RN