tHE wAITING gAME: O’s to the Toes…
_________________________________________________ – Editor’s Note: – Sometimes you just know… –It was gonna be a long pump run, huge patient, and the CT […]
Red Sea Rising: Strategies to Improve Surgical Visualization
Editor’s Note: This is a discussion on a very difficult case where anomalous venous return was overwhelming during a multi-valve repair / […]
VAXXED: The New Norm? CDC Guidelines…
Editor’s Note: I got my 2nd dose of the COVID Vaccine the other day. I don’t recommend any particular vaccine over the […]
A CO2 PE during SGV Harvesting? WTF?
Editor’s Note: I had an interesting case the other day, here at hospital 56. It was an op cab – and it […]
A Locum’s ScrapBook: Unmasking COVID: Virtual Reality has BECOME our Economy.
Editor’s Note: – That is my family. Up there- I want to be able to say that a year from now… – […]
The COVID Wars: At What Point do you Not Answer “YES” ?
Editor’s Note: This is January 27, 2021. A year ago news stories were talking about the Wuhan virus in China, and few […]
The COVID Wars: The Lobster Tanks… Inside Looking Out
Editor’s Note: It was that kind of day, here on the other side of the Savannah river. When I came down here […]
The COVID Wars: Fighting An Apex Predator…
Editor’s Note: I thought I would highlight the last week we have experienced here down South of the Mason-Dixon Line- in […]
The COVID Wars: We Have Become Ostriches…
Editor’s Note: The only thing that Perfusion and Politics have in common is the letter “P”. Nothing else and nothing more. I […]
The COVID Wars: Frontline Perfusion
Editor’s Note: I guess the question becomes- It was named COVID 19 for the year it emerged. As it mutates to 2021- […]
The COVID Wars: A Novel Concept- MMR Vaccine May Mitigate Inflammatory Process?
Editor’s Note: Two cases canceled today because our ICU’s are filled to capacity and overflowing. Last night another VV Covid ECMO– so […]
The Perfect “10”
Editor’s Note: “It’s uniquely exhilarating doing something so few can do. That pretty much describes my life as a perfusionist, putting people […]