SpecialtyCare Founder, Chairman, and CEO Gary Brukardt Dies
SpecialtyCare today announced that Gary Brukardt, its founder, chairman, and CEO, died unexpectedly Tuesday evening in Nashville.
World's Largest Resource for Cardiovascular Perfusion
SpecialtyCare today announced that Gary Brukardt, its founder, chairman, and CEO, died unexpectedly Tuesday evening in Nashville.
Cardiothoracic surgical leadership recently challenged the surgical community to achieve an operative mortality rate of 1.0% for the performance of isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The purpose of our study was to identify a patient population in which this operative mortality goal is achievable relative to the estimated operative risk.
In this prospective study, we subjected five lungs considered to be high risk for transplantation to 4 hours of ex vivo lungperfusion, with evaluation of oxygenation capacity.