Tiny Perfusion Letter #308

Tiny Perfusion Letter

Sometimes, it's all about the blood, the whole blood and nothing but the blood...
So help me The Perfusionist

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Marc Verstraete (1925–2018)
Obituary
J Thromb and Haemost, 2018:16: 1–2 FREE

Red Blood Cell Disorders: Perioperative Considerations for Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery.
Smith MM, Renew JR, Nelson JA, Barbara DW.
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2018 Aug 8. [Epub ahead of print]

Calculation Algorithm Reduces Protamine Doses Without Increasing Blood Loss or the Transfusion Rate in Cardiac Surgery: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Kjellberg G, Holm M, Fux T, Lindvall G, van der Linden J.
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2018 Aug 3. [Epub ahead of print]

Patient Blood Management in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: A Review.
Cholette JM, Faraoni D, Goobie SM, Ferraris V, Hassan N.
Anesth Analg. 2018 Oct;127(4):1002-1016

An international consensus statement on the management of postoperative anaemia after major surgical procedures.
Muñoz M, Acheson AG, Bisbe E, Butcher A, Gómez-Ramírez S et al.
Anaesthesia. 2018 Nov;73(11):1418-1431 FREE
Editorial

Bleeding by the numbers: The utility and the limitations of bleeding scores, bleeding prediction tools, and bleeding case definitions.
Rimmer EK, Houston DS.
Transfus Apher Sci. 2018 Aug;57(4):458-462

National Benchmarks for Proportions of Patients Receiving Blood Transfusions During Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: An Analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database.
Kartha VM, Jacobs JP, Vener DF, Hill KD, Goldenberg NA et al.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2018 Oct;106(4):1197-1203

Bloodless Heart Surgery for an 11-kg Infant of the Jehovah's Witness Faith Undergoing Second Repair for Complete Atrioventricular Canal.
Plancher G, Datt B, Nguyen M, Munro H, DeCampli WM, Pourmoghadam K.
J Extra Corpor Technol. 2018 Sep;50(3):184-186

Comparison of the Coagulation Effect Achieved by OctaplasLG Versus Fresh Frozen Plasma in Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Patients.
Kalsi AS, Al-Azzawi O, Gill R.
Clin Appl Thromb Hemost. 2018 Nov;24(8):1327-1332

Heparin-protamine balance after neonatal cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.
Peterson JA, Maroney SA, Zwifelhofer W, Wood JP, Yan K, Bercovitz RS et al.
J Thromb Haemost. 2018 Oct;16(10):1973-1983