Perfusionists are a rare breed, and so it’s even more difficult to know how to become one. This article talks about how to become a perfusionist in the USA.
We describe a retrospective study of initial and long-term outcomes with an open stent grafting (OSG) with a Matsui-Kitamura stent for treating thoracic aortic aneurysm.
Transfusion of 1 unit of 42-day-stored RBCs to healthy subjects has no overt detrimental effect on tissue oxygenation or the microcirculation assessed by clinically available monitors.
