Selected 2024 Highlights in Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia.

This article reviews the highlights of pertinent literature of interest to the congenital cardiac anesthesiologist published in 2024. Following a search of the United States National Library of Medicine PubMed database, several topics emerged where significant contributions were made in 2024. The current authors considered the following topics noteworthy to be included in this review: anesthetic management for aspiration thrombectomy in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease, the role of corticosteroids in congenital heart surgery, regional anesthesia for congenital cardiac surgery, and point-of-care coagulation testing in pediatric cardiac surgery.