A Bridge to Transplant? How About a BRIDGE to Medicare?

This study reports on a large group of patients who underwent totally robotic atrial septal defect (ASD) repair on an arrested or beating heart at a single institution with a 7-year follow-up.

The Hemobag® Blood Salvage Device has been successfully incorporated into the multi-modality approach to blood conservation seen at one of the top blood conservation cardiac programs in the world at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, New Jersey. Recently the technique of hemoconcentrating the residual blood from the extracorporeal circuit with use of the Hemobag system was successfully performed on two consecutive patients who are of the Jehovah's Witness faith.