Optimizing Platelet Function During the Storage of Collected Blood After Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution (EP Video)
Matthew D. Hansen discusses strategies to optimize platelet function after ANH (15:02 minutes).
Why Do We Have Difficulty Finding the One Best Way? (EP Video)
Jeffrey Riley discusses the problem of finding the best way to do perfusion(23:20 minutes).
Designing Registries that Improve Care: Translating the Information from Registries into Our Practice (EP Video)
Robert Groom discusses the philosophy behind registries and how they can help improve patient care (31:30 minutes).
Getting Your Work Published (EP Video)
Bob Groom discusses the process of getting an original scientific work published in JECT (18:35 minutes).
First Transportation on a Berlin Heart EXCOR Left Ventricular Assist Device as a Bridge to Transplantation to Arkansas Children’s Hospital (EP Video)
Dorothy Garbin discusses the first transportation on a Berlin Heart EXCOR Left Ventricular Assist Device (7:52 minutes).
AmSECT Presidential Address (EP Video)
David Fitzgerald discusses the present and future of AmSECT(61:36 minutes).
A Case Study: The Need to Develop Standardized Protocols for the Timing of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Initiation Among Patients in Cardiac Arrest (EP Video)
Matthew Mosca presents a case study on the need to develop protocols for the timing of ECMO (11:52 minutes).
Successful Bridge to Transplant Using the Pediatric VAD – Berlin Heart EXCOR (EP Video)
Brandon Livingston discusses a successful bridge to transplant with the Berlin Heart EXCOR (11:31 minutes).
Overview of Statistical Tests for Research (EP Video)
Donald Likosky provides an overview on the statistical research tests used in research (20:23 minutes).
Thromboelastometry Overestimates the Need for Hemostatic Agents (EP Video)
Arndt Kiessling discusses the use of TEG and how it may overestimate the need for hemostatic agents (15:31 minutes).
Thrombectomy under Cardiopulmonary Bypass for Inferior Vena Cava Thrombosis Induced by Liver Injury
As liver function deteriorated quickly despite heparin administration, surgical thrombectomy was performed under hypothermic circulatory arrest through sternotomy and laparotomy.
Impact of Closed Minimal Extracorporeal Circulation on Microvascular Tissue Perfusion during Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: Intravital Imaging in a Prospective Randomized Study
The use of MECC in AVR did not affect procedural safety