Joint Perfusion COVID-19 Task Force Webinar 5/14/2020
Join the Joint Perfusion COVID-19 Task Force for the next live webinar on Thursday, May 14 to hear from physicians from around the world on COVID-19 treatments, reopening ORs, and starting up CPB again.
Global Effort to Collect Data on Ventilated Patients With COVID-19
They called their study ECMOCARD, short for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for novel Coronavirus Acute Respiratory Disease.
Covid-19: General Guidelines For Cardiovascular Surgeons (standard guidelines – subject to change)
Important considerations should be given to our readers regarding cardiac surgery, surgical teams, our patients, and their possible contacts.
Convalescent Plasma Transfusion for the Treatment of COVID‐19: Systematic Review
Based on the limited scientific data, CPT therapy in COVID‐19 patients appears safe, clinically effective, and reduces mortality.
COVID-19: 10 Things I Wished I’d Known Some Months Ago
This viewpoint addresses 10 points that may be of interest both the logistics, as well as actual clinical care of critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Restarting with Covid-19: Seven Key Action Items
Leaders at NewYork-Presbyterian have created a Restart Coordination Committee to develop and execute a measured approach for the way forward.
Gas Exchange Calculation may Estimate Changes in Pulmonary Blood Flow during Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Porcine model.
VCO2 of the lung correlated strongly with pulmonary blood flow. Our model could predict pulmonary blood flow changes within clinically acceptable margins of error.
Diagnosis and Management of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
HIT is a clinical-biological syndrome induced by IgG isotype antibodies, which almost always recognise heparin-modified platelet factor 4 (PF4/H), with intense platelet activation associated with explosive thrombin generation that can lead to venous and/or arterial thrombosis.
Cardiac Surgery During Pregnancy
The need for cardiac surgery during pregnancy is rare. Only 1% to 4% of pregnancies are complicated by maternal cardiac disease and most of these can be managed with medical therapy and lifestyle changes.
Management of Challenging Cardiopulmonary Bypass Separation
the aim of the present review is to describe the most common scenarios associated with a complex CPB separation and to suggest strategies, pharmacologic agents, and para-corporeal mechanical devices that can be adopted to manage patients with complex separation from CPB.
Perfusion and EuroELSO: A Revolution In Evolution – Indeed an ongoing evolvement – Online adaptation
This is the Editorial to a special issue of Perfusion on ECLS in cooperation with EuroELSO.
Safety for All: Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Cardiac Surgery: a Roadmap to ‘Phase’ 2
Health care communities need to develop a strategy to restart non-COVID medical and surgical care. To achieve this goal safely, they need to develop a ‘roadmap’.