This is a very well done video of: "A Day in the Life of a Perfusionist." The video captures many intersting aspects and diversities of a perfusionists responsibilities. My compliments to the creators and editors.
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Cardiac
May 6, 2016
The authors report on the differences in outcome after semicontinuous versus interrupted suture techniques for aortic valve implantation. In a propensity matched analysis with 411 patient pairs they found similar mortality and the risk of redo surgery regardless of the implantation technique.
May 6, 2016
The effectivity of Sildenafil for preoperative preconditioning in pediatric heart surgery was tested in a randomized trial. Thirteen children each with low-dose (0.06 mg/kg), high-dose (0.6 mg/kg) or no preconditioning underwent VSD closure.
May 5, 2016
Is an open, endovascular, or hybrid approach the most effective treatment for thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm? An international panel debates the merits and pitfalls of each approach.
May 5, 2016
This article summarizes the current status of robotic approaches to mitral valve repair. The technique is suitable to all types of degenerative mitral valve disease, and the outcomes are similar to those for open repair.
May 2, 2016
This video demonstrates a technique for transmyocardial laser revascularization using a VATS approach.
April 29, 2016
This article examined the impact of gait speed, as a marker of frailty, on surgical outcomes in a group of 167 cardiac patients aged 65 years or older. The authors concluded that there was no relation between gait speed and outcome.
April 28, 2016
Stephen Westaby reflects on his extraordinary career in cardiac surgery in an interview with Leanne Harling, which was filmed at the 2015 EACTS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
April 28, 2016
In a large multi-center, propensity-matched study, Paparella et al found that antiplatelet therapy as opposed to oral anticoagulation therapy initiated after mitral valve repair as antithrombotic prophylaxis caused significantly less major bleeding, which also caused mortality to be less by a 5-fold than with anticoagulation therapy.
April 27, 2016
Should off-pump CABG be abandoned? Joseph Sabik of the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, suggests that while off-pump CABG should not be completely abandoned, it should no longer be the default option.