Table 3

Expert skills and services required in an adult congenital cardiac expert centre*

*Any team member may fill one or more functions if qualified to do so.

  • ▸ Cardiology (preferably both paediatric and adult trained)

  • ▸ Cardiac surgery (congenital heart surgery is usually based at a children’s hospital)

  • ▸ Diagnostic and interventional catheterisation

  • ▸ Echocardiography

  • ▸ Electrophysiology

  • ▸ Special imaging (especially expert magnetic resonance imaging)

  • ▸ Nursing

  • ▸ High risk pregnancy and reproductive counselling

  • ▸ Special intensive care and anaesthesiology