Tiny Perfusion Letter #22

Tiny Perfusion Letter

We warned you that we were ready for TLP #22. Are you? Here we go!

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The effect of the SQUIRE (Standards of QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence) guidelines on reporting standards in the quality improvement literature: a before-and-after study.
Howell V, Schwartz AE, O'Leary JD, Mc Donnell C
BMJ Qual Saf. 2015 Feb 12. [Epub ahead of print]

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Evidence-based Medicine.
Voelker R
JAMA. 2015;313(18):1783-1785

Subclinical seizures identified by postoperative electroencephalographic monitoring are common after neonatal cardiac surgery.
Naim MY, Gaynor JW, Chen J, Nicolson SC, Fuller S et al
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Apr 1. [Epub ahead of print]

Veno-venous extracorporeal CO2 removal for the treatment of severe respiratory acidosis: pathophysiological and technical considerations.
Karagiannidis C, Kampe KA, Sipmann FS, Larsson A, Hedenstierna G, Windisch W, Mueller T
Crit Care. 2014 Jun 17;18(3):R124 FREE

Platelet factor 4/heparin-particle gel immunoassay (PaGIA) is a weak method for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) evaluation of post cardio-pulmonary bypass surgery patients.
Ganzel C1, Rowe J, Raveh D
J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2014 Oct;38(3):314-20

Visceral organ protection in aortic arch surgery: safety of moderate hypothermia.
Pacini D, Pantaleo A, Di Marco L, Leone A, Barberio G et al
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2014 Sep;46(3):438-43

Extracorporeal life support: experience with 2,000 patients.
Gray BW, Haft JW, Hirsch JC, Annich GM, Hirschl RB, Bartlett RH
ASAIO J. 2015 Jan-Feb;61(1):2-7

Fibrinogen measurement in cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass: analysis of repeatability and agreement of Clauss method within and between six different laboratories.
Solomon C, Baryshnikova E, Tripodi A, Schlimp CJ, Schöchl H et al
Thromb Haemost. 2014 Jul 3;112(1):109-17

Does preoperative carotid stenosis screening reduce perioperative stroke in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting?
Masabni K, Raza S, Blackstone EH, Gornik HL, Sabik JF 3rd
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 May;149(5):1253-60

Feasibility of smaller arterial cannulas in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Takayama H, Landes E, Truby L, Fujita K, Kirtane AJ
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 May;149(5):1428-33