Risks vs. Benefits of the Off-Label Use of Recombinant Factor VIIa in the Cardiac Arena (EP Video)
Alicia Sievert discusses the risks and benefits of off-label use of Recombinant Factor VIIa (23:00 minutes).
Data Collection and Interpretation in Blood Management (EP Video)
Dr. Mark Popovsky discusses the collection and interpretation of data in a blood management program (43:34 minutes).
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.
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).
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).
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).