Clinical Review: Management of Weaning from Cardiopulmonary Bypass After Cardiac Surgery
A sizable number of cardiac surgical patients are difficult to wean off cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) as a result of structural or functional cardiac abnormalities, vasoplegic syndrome, or ventricular dysfunction.
Effects of Preoperative Intravenous Erythropoietin Plus Iron on Outcome in Anemic Patients After Cardiac Valve Replacement
Preoperative anemia is a risk factor for postoperative morbidity and in-hospital mortality in cardiac surgery.
Outcome of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation and Graft Recovery
A retrospective database review was performed for 108 consecutive patients who underwent single-lung or bilateral-lung transplantation at our center between 2002 and 2009.
Effect of Platelet-Rich Plasma with Fibrin Matrix on Healing of Intrasynovial Flexor Tendons
To investigate the effects of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) with fibrin matrix on the healing of intrasynovial flexor tendons in a rabbit model in vivo.
The Inflammatory Response to Cardiac Surgery With Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Should Steroid Prophylaxis Be Routine?
Perioperative steroid prophylaxis offers the possibility to manipulate the inflammatory response to CPB for outcome benefit.
Bob Dylan, Michael Jordan, and a Few Almost Failures (EP Video)
Peter A. Beaulieu discusses patient safety in the operating room(23.53 minutes).
There Are Easy Ways, and Then There Are the Hard, Expensive Ways: Reducing Transfusions (EP Video)
Raymond Wongs discusses the easy and difficult ways to reduce transfusions in the OR (47:50 minutes).
Transcatheter Therapies for Aortic Stenosis (EP Video)
Vincent Tobin discusses transcatheter therapies for Aortic Stenosis (33:49 minutes).
What Does the Culture Safety Look Like in Your Department? A Chief Perfusionist’s Perspective (EP Video)
David Fitzgerald presents a chief perfusionist's perspective on the culture of perfusion safety (51:48 minutes).
What Makes the Great Ones Great (EP Video)
Don Yaeger provides and inspirational talk at the Mechanisms 2012 conference (66:49 minutes).
ECMO: Where are we Today? (EP Video)
Dr. Nicholas Cavarocchi dicusses the current state of ECMO technology (43:22 minutes).
Early Case Series Experience With a New Unique Portable Heart Lung Machine (EP Video)
Jeff Riley discusses his early experience with the Maquet CardioHelp at the Mayo Clinic (32:10 minutes).