Extracorporeal Circulation
…This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about managing the left subclavian artery...
In this study of 4,854 brain-dead donors from three U.S. organ procurement organizations, the donor PaO2 trajectory strongly influenced lung procurement: More than 75 percent had low initial PaO2, but...
In this analysis of the Cardiogenic Shock Working Group registry, 1,502 of 11,386 patients with cardiogenic shock received venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO), more than half with concurrent temporary mechanical...
In this single-center retrospective review from the Toronto Lung Transplant Program, a two-surgeon donor-review system in which lungs declined by the primary on-call surgeon were reassessed by a second surgeon...
This session features George M. Pantalos, Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA, and Joseph Zwischenberger, Professor of...
