Our Heart Center has updated its website to better facilitate a smooth referral process for community providers and their patients. The updated guidelines provide our current wait times (five days or less for urgent referrals and up to a few weeks for non-urgent ones) and information about where to send the referral since referrals should be submitted to the Heart Center clinic location where the patient would like to be seen (this is different than most Seattle Children’s clinics).
The new site tells when and how to upload imaging and diagnostic reports, how to order an ECG or echocardiogram and where else we may redirect patients who are coming in for certain conditions if a different Seattle Children’s specialist would better meet their needs (i.e., concussion, syncope/pre-syncope, hypertension and hyperlipidemia can fall into these categories).
For providers who order a consult for a heart murmur, we offer heart murmur information for families you can give to offer reassurance as they wait for an appointment with us.
The Heart Center website also offers extensive patient management resources for PCPs for conditions that can sometimes be managed in primary care:
- Concussion
- Algorithm: Referring Your Patient With Concussion or Traumatic Brain Injury (PDF)
- Standardized Concussion Assessment tool – 5th edition (SCAT 5)
- Sports Concussion Program at Seattle Children’s
- About Concussion
- HEADS UP to Healthcare Providers Online Training: online concussion training, tools for providers, discharge instructions, return to activities (Centers for Disease Control)
- Concussion in children and adolescents: Management (UpToDate)
- Return to Sports
- COVID-19 Return to Sports (algorithm)
- Return to Sports This Fall: Advice From Our Cardiologists (September 2021)
- A Conversation With Dr. Josiah Peñalver and Dr. Matthew Studer About Pediatric Chest Pain and COVID-19 (February 2022)
- Special Update: Monitoring for Myocarditis After COVID-19 Vaccination (May 2021)
- Cardiac Safety and Screening in Teen Sports: A Q&A With Dr. Cory Noel (August 2020)
- Syncope and Presyncope
- Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Patients with Syncope (ACC/AHA/HRS)
- Adolescent Fatigue, POTS, and Recovery: A Guide for Clinicians
- Expert Consensus Statement on Diagnosis and Treatment of POTS, Inappropriate Sinus Tach and Vasovagal Syncope
- Cardiac Care Plan: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardic Syndrome (POTS)
- Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
- Hyperlipidemia
- Integrated Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk Reduction in Children and Adolescents (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH)
- Hypertension
For complete information about when and how to refer to the Heart Center, please visit the Heart Center’s Refer a Patient web page.