Tiny Perfusion Letter #251

Tiny Perfusion Letter

Before we dive into the weekend, here's some titles to keep you updated

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Cardiopulmonary bypass for pediatric cardiac surgery.
Hirata Y.
Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017 Nov 28. [Epub ahead of print] FREE

Reversible preoperative renal dysfunction does not add to the risk of postoperative acute kidney injury after cardiac valve surgery.
Xu JR, Zhuang YM, Liu L, Shen B, Wang YM et al.
Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2017 Nov 10;13:1499-1505 FREE
 
S100B increases in cyanotic versus noncyanotic infants undergoing heart surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).
Varrica A, Satriano A, Gavilanes ADW, Zimmermann LJ, Vles HJS et al.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2017 Nov 28:1-7

Intraoperative vasoplegia: methylene blue to the rescue!
McCartney SL, Duce L, Ghadimi K.
Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2017 Nov 15. [Epub ahead of print]
 
Keep Ventilating the Lungs While the Heart is Still Ejecting on Femoro-femoral Cardiopulmonary Bypass.
Thomassen SA, Leonaviciute D, Haar PE, Frøkjær JB, Rasmussen BS.
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2017 Oct 20. [Epub ahead of print]

Determinants of Variation in Pneumonia Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.
Brescia AA, Rankin JS, Cyr DD, Jacobs JP, Prager RL et al.; Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Nov 23. [Epub ahead of print]

Improving cannulation time for extracorporeal life support in refractory cardiac arrest of presumed cardiac cause - Comparison of two percutaneous cannulation techniques in the catheterization laboratory in a center without on-site cardiovascular surgery.
Voicu S, Henry P, Malissin I, Jean-Guillaume D, Koumoulidis A et al.
Resuscitation. 2017 Nov 26;122:69-75

ECMO as an effective rescue therapeutic for fulminant myocarditis complicated with refractory cardiac arrest.
Li YT, Yang LF, Chen ZG, Pan L, Duan MQ et al.
Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2017 Nov 14;13:1507-1511

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: An Expanding Role in Cardiovascular Care.
Buscher H, Hayward C.
Heart Lung Circ. 2018 Jan;27(1):3-5

Intraoperative thermographic imaging to assess myocardial distribution of Del Nido cardioplegia.
Rao P, Keenan JB, Rajab TK, Ferng A, Kim S, Khalpey Z.
J Card Surg. 2017 Dec 3. [Epub ahead of print]