Table 3.

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

▸ 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

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