As COVID-19 continues to spread and put patients in the ICU, palliative care professionals are the experts many patients and family members are seeking.

"It is my personal commitment that every Ochsner employee, nurse, physician, clinician and leader feels like an equal member of the Ochsner family – no matter their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, social or economic background,'' says Warner Thomas, president and CEO of Ochsner Health.

Many murmurs are picked up on routine medical exams such as annual or sports physicals. In most cases, a pediatric cardiologist can listen to a child’s heart and determine if a murmur is an innocent murmur of childhood or deserves further workup.