What You Need to Know About Novel Anticoagulants, PCCs (Prothrombin Complex Concentrates) and Human Fibrogen Concentrates (EP Video)
Dr. Suzanne Bakdash discusses novel anticoagulants and complex fibrogen concentrates (35:30 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.
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).
Transcatheter Therapies for Aortic Stenosis (EP Video)
Vincent Tobin discusses transcatheter therapies for Aortic Stenosis (33:49 minutes).
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).