World's Largest Resource for Cardiovascular Perfusion
Robert Groom discusses a 7 year study on the detection and elimination of microemboli related to CPB (19 minutes).
In the developed world, most of the reported complications of transfusion have an immunological basis. Although the media and the public are worried about the infectious risks of transfusion, hemovigilance reports show that antigen-antibody reactions are responsible for the vast majority of acute and delayed transfusion reactions
The purpose of this informal and non-scientific medication survey was to ascertain which medications are administered by perfusionists into the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit, so a standard of practice can eventually be defined on this subject.