World's Largest Resource for Cardiovascular Perfusion
As the world learned about Covid-19, the application of ECMO also evolved as health systems in the United States had some time to prepare. We report our initial experience using extracorporeal support for Covid-19 patients with the resource challenges that attend a worldwide pandemic.
In patients undergoing cardiac surgery who develop clinically significant bleeding and hypofibrinogenemia after cardiopulmonary bypass, fibrinogen concentrate is noninferior to cryoprecipitate with regard to number of blood components transfused in a 24-hour period post bypass.
assistance to give better chances for the lung to recover. Thoughts for these new interdisciplinary duties of cardio surgical units were discussed in the committee for the Symposium for the Future of Cardiac Surgery.
