Tiny Perfusion Letter #18

Tiny Perfusion Letter

This is the 18th edition of the TPL. We keep the formula going. I got 10, you get 10.

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Some bright fellow from the UK pointed me out to a missing link in an article in the previous TPL. So of course, we want to correct that first.

Fluid distribution kinetics during cardiopulmonary bypass.
Törnudd M, Hahn RG, Zdolsek JH
Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2014 Aug;69(8):535-41 FREE

Now let's move on...

MY APPROACH to the patient with pulmonary embolism.
Rich JD
Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2015 May;25(4):374-5

Ventricular assist devices: The future is now.
Lima B, Mack M, Gonzalez-Stawinski GV
Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2015 May;25(4):360-369
EDITORIAL

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support in Postcardiotomy Elderly Patients: The Mayo Clinic Experience.
Saxena P, Neal J, Joyce LD, Greason KL, Schaff HV, Guru P, Shi WY, Burkhart H, Li Z, Oliver WC, Pike RB, Haile DT, Schears GJ
Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Apr 9. [Epub ahead of print]

Do patients with haematological malignancy who need cardiopulmonary bypass have a short-term higher mortality or a higher chance of disease progression?
Plumereau F, Pinaud F, Roch A, Baufreton C
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2014 Sep;19(3):474-8 FREE

Is it possible to predict the risk of ischaemic bowel after cardiac surgery?
Yap KH, Chua KC, Lim SL, Sin YK
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2014 Sep;19(3):494-8 FREE

Ex-vivo perfusion of donor hearts for human heart transplantation (PROCEED II): a prospective, open-label, multicentre, randomised non-inferiority trial.
Ardehali A, Esmailian F, Deng M, Soltesz E, Hsich E, Naka Y, Mancini D, Camacho M, Zucker M, Leprince P, Padera R, Kobashigawa J; PROCEED II trial investigators
Lancet. 2015 Apr 14. [Epub ahead of print]

Lower limb overflow syndrome in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Mosquera VX, Solla-Buceta M, Pradas-Irún C, Fernández-Arias L
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2014 Sep;19(3):532-4 FREE

Troubleshooting during a challenging high-risk pacemaker lead extraction: a case report and review of the literature.
Rizkallah J, Kent W, Kuriachan V, Burgess J, Exner D
BMC Res Notes. 2015 Mar 25;8:94 FREE

Post-operative bleeding risk stratification in cardiac pulmonary bypass patients using artificial neural network.
Huang RS, Nedelcu E, Bai Y, Wahed A, Klein K et al.
Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2015 Mar;45(2):181-6.

The efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness of intra-operative cell salvage in high-bleeding-risk cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass: a prospective randomized and controlled trial.
Xie Y, Shen S, Zhang J, Wang W, Zheng J
Int J Med Sci. 2015 Apr 1;12(4):322-8