Pediatric heart surgeons at Children’s National Hospital perform a high volume of lifesaving surgeries ranging from the most complex congenital problems to the more common issues, all with children’s neurodevelopment in mind.
At Children’s National, our high-volume pediatric surgery program consistently performs more pediatric cardiac surgeries than any of the other hospitals in the area. In 2019 alone, we performed 456 surgeries with a survival rate of 97.5%.