Unusual Approaches to Usual Techniques in Extracorporeal Circulatory Support (EP Video)
Dr. Steven Bibevski discusses two cases where there were unusual approaches that employed (30:54 minutes).
Type A Dissection Leads to Total Artificial Heart Bridge-to-Transplant (EP Video)
Kelly Sullivan presents a case report expressed the complicated road to recovery for a patient who underwent two heart transplant procedures (17:31 minutes).
Hybrid Procedures: The Non Duel Between the Surgeons and the Interventionalist (EP Video)
Chen Chan presents case study of a patient with complex hypoplastic left heart syndrome treated by primary cardiac transplantation will be presented from in-utero findings and listing through immediate post-natal “hybrid” palliation with bilateral branch pulmonary arterial banding and ductal stent placement and finally primary transplantation (21:17 minutes).
ECMO Cannulation Sites: A Case Study (EP Video)
Heal Patel discusses veno-arterial ECMO, also known as VA-ECMO in which the femoral artery and vein are used for the cannulation site (15:22 minutes).
Frozen Elephant Trunk (EP Video)
Dr. Thomas Beaver discusses his approach to the Frozen Elephant Trunk procedure (28:07 minutes).
What is a MAZE Operation? (EP Vieo)
Dr. Thomas Beaver explains the MAZE operation in great detail (20:37 minutes).
Xvivo Lung Preservation (EP Video)
Ex-vivo lung preservation (EVLP) provides an alternative to obtaining viable donor lungs (35:24 minutes).
Myocardial Protection in 2015 (EP Video)
Richard Hayes focuses on the clinical , technical, and perfusion management aspects that these complex surgical pathology present, current strategies and techniques, and the data we have available to support our protection strategy choices (46:21 minutes).
Goal Directed Perfusion: Clinical Need and Practice (EP Video)
Sorin has developed a monitoring system that performs GDP calculations and provides this information to perfusionists in real time, along with data recording. This presentation will review those parameters in detail and discuss how to apply them clinically (29:25 minutes).
Invasion of Privacy: Big Data and Modern Times (EP Video)
Susan Blair present on Big Data and more on the personal rather than the professional aspects of privacy (27:04 minutes)
A Perfusionist Abroad II: Pumping in Persia (EP Video)
Brian Forsberg introduces to the newly founded charity, Novick Cardiac Alliance along with a brief historical overview of Iran followed by a narrative of my recent trip to the capital city, Tehran (32:34 minutes).
Evidence for why Inadequate Cerebral Blood Flow is a Cause of Cerebral Injury in even the Most “Routine” Cardiac Surgery, and why NIRS is Your Real-Time Friend to Optimize Brain Perfusion (EP Video)
This presentation reviews the epidemiology of neuro injury following CABG, and shows how NIRS is a valuable real-time tool to help resolve inadequacies in cerebral perfusion (14:16 minutes).