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.
Subtle Differences in Commercial Heparins Can Have Serious Consequences for Cardiopulmonary Bypass Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Because in vitro testing failed to detect differences in the potency or protamine reversibility of the 2 heparin preparations, we conducted a parallel group, single-center, double-blind, randomized, controlled trial to compare the anticoagulant effects of Hepalean to those of PPC heparin in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass.
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.
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.
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.
Incident Reporting in Perfusion: Attitudes and Efficacy in Improving Health Care Quality (EP Video)
Dave C. Fitzgerald discusses the attitudes and efficacy of incident reporting in perfusion (36:56 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).
How We Managed to Change Blood Usage with Q.I. (EP Video)
Charles Yarnall discusses how his team managed to reduce blood use through quality improvement (33:03 minutes).
What Makes the Great Ones Great (EP Video)
Don Yaeger provides and inspirational talk at the Mechanisms 2012 conference (66:49 minutes).
The Clinical Utility of Thromboelastography During Long Term Extracorporeal Life Support (EP Video)
Jeff Riley discusses the utility of TEG during long-term ECMO support (35:55 minutes).
ECMO: Where are we Today? (EP Video)
Dr. Nicholas Cavarocchi dicusses the current state of ECMO technology (43:22 minutes).
Bob Dylan, Michael Jordan, and a Few Almost Failures (EP Video)
Peter A. Beaulieu discusses patient safety in the operating room(23.53 minutes).