May 31, 2026 · 21 min · 9 segments
This episode untangles the wild world of congenital heart defects — from cyanotic to acyanotic and everything in between. We’ll break down how to categorise, conceptualise, and actually remember these…
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Nim AithalHost[upbeat music] Dr. Nim, Ivor, check the vitals.
Are you ready? Let's go ward round now.
From neonates to the clinic hustle, building up your pediatric muscle, we'll top up your pediatric knowledge, one spoonful at a time.
One spoonful at a time.
Let's go.
Oh.
Hi, I'm Nim, and this is A Spoonful of Medicine, topping up your pediatric knowledge one spoonful at a time.
On this episode of our heart series, we are diving into the types of congenital heart defects.
This is something that trips up a lot of medical students, junior doctors, and to be honest, anyone who works with kids.
Once you have a solid mental framework of how to categorize congenital heart defects, things make a lot more sense.
So on this episode, we're going to be building a mental map of how you can think about congenital heart disease so when you see the next kid, you're not as scared.
Oh.
Now, before I dive in, I want to say that congenital heart disease is easier to conceptualize visually.
So I highly recommend you check out at spoonful.of.medicine on Instagram for some pictures of all the defects that I'm gonna talk about and also some super helpful and high yield flow charts to remember all of these defects by.
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[upbeat music] Dr. Nim, Ivor, check the vitals.
Are you ready? Let's go ward round now.
From neonates to the clinic hustle, building up your pediatric muscle, we'll top up your pediatric knowledge, one spoonful at a time.
One spoonful at a time.
Let's go.
Oh.
Hi, I'm Nim, and this is A Spoonful of Medicine, topping up your pediatric knowledge one spoonful at a time.
On this episode of our heart series, we are diving into the types of congenital heart defects.
This is something that trips up a lot of medical students, junior doctors, and to be honest, anyone who works with kids.
Once you have a solid mental framework of how to categorize congenital heart defects, things make a lot more sense.
So on this episode, we're going to be building a mental map of how you can think about congenital heart disease so when you see the next kid, you're not as scared.
Oh.
Now, before I dive in, I want to say that congenital heart disease is easier to conceptualize visually.
So I highly recommend you check out at spoonful.of.medicine on Instagram for some pictures of all the defects that I'm gonna talk about and also some super helpful and high yield flow charts to remember all of these defects by.