Toward Optimal Anticoagulation Monitoring During Cardiopulmonary Bypass: It Is Still A Tough “ACT”
A switch from ACT to anti-Xa monitoring cannot be recommended in cardiac surgery with CPB at the moment.
Lung Protection Strategies during Cardiopulmonary Bypass Affect the Composition of Blood Electrolytes and Metabolites – A Randomized Controlled Trial
This sub-study of the Pulmonary Protection Trial aimed to elucidate changes in arterial blood gas analyses, inflammatory protein interleukin-6, and metabolites of 90 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients following two lung protective regimens of pulmonary artery perfusion with either hypothermic histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate (HTK) solution or normothermic oxygenated blood during CPB, compared to the standard CPB with no pulmonary perfusion.
Supply and Demand in the Perfusion Services Sector: 2019 Update
A video presentation from the 2019 Sanibel Symposium on Perfusion Supply and Demand by Presentation by Michael Colligan, RN, MS, CCP (29:47 minutes).
The KBC Protocol: An Update On Method And Communication
A video presentation from the 2018 Sanibel Symposium on the KBC cardioplegia protocol by Candice Kalin (21:10 minutes).
Supply and Demand in the Perfusion Services Sector
Supply and Demand in the Perfusion Services Sector. This topic was presented at the 2018 Sanibel Symposium Conference.
Redefining Hypertension — Assessing the New Blood-Pressure Guidelines
The new Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults issued by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) tries to accomplish this task by extending the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee (JNC7) and the Expert Panel Report to include updated data from clinical trials and by accentuating previously underemphasized sections of the 2003 and 2013 reports.
Results of the 2015 Perfusionist Salary Study
The objective of the 2015 Perfusionist Salary Study was to gather verifiable employee information to determine current compensation market rates (salary averages) of clinical perfusionists working in the United States.
A Novel Anti-Pollution Filter for Volatile Agents During Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Preliminary Tests.
The authors' aim was to create and to assess the performance of a prototype filter for volatile agents to be connected to the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit to avoid the emission of volatile agents to the operating room, and also to the environment without causing damage to the membrane oxygenator.
A Novel Anti-Pollution Filter for Volatile Agents During Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Preliminary Tests.
The authors' aim was to create and to assess the performance of a prototype filter for volatile agents to be connected to the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit to avoid the emission of volatile agents to the operating room, and also to the environment without causing damage to the membrane oxygenator.
Anticoagulation During Pregnancy: Evolving Strategies With a Focus on Mechanical Valves
Development of anticoagulant agents that are homogeneous, efficacious, safe to the fetus, and not affected by physiological perturbations of pregnancy will have tremendous effect on the outcomes of pregnancy in women who require anticoagulation.
Acidosis induced by carbon dioxide insufflation decreases heparin potency: a risk factor for thrombus formation.
In this in vitro study, we assessed the influence of acidosis and hypothermia on heparin potency and thrombin formation.