Tiny Perfusion Letter #COVID-19-special

Tiny Perfusion Letter

We know it's the weekend... (really...?)

But these are troubling/confusing times,
so we decided to go ahead with another COVID-19 special

Enjoy, Share and Be Safe
 

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COVID-19 Respiratory Failure: Targeting Inflammation on VV-ECMO Support.
Hartman ME, Hernandez RA, Patel K, Wagner TE, Trinh T et al.
ASAIO J. 2020 Apr 16. Online ahead of print FREE

COVID-19 and Thrombotic or Thromboembolic Disease: Implications for Prevention, Antithrombotic Therapy, and Follow-up.
Bikdeli B, Madhavan MV, Jimenez D, Chuich T, Dreyfus I et al.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Apr 15. Online ahead of print FREE

Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area.
Richardson S, Hirsch JS, Narasimhan M, Crawford JM, McGinn T et al.
JAMA. 2020 Apr 22. Online ahead of print FREE

Effect of High vs Low Doses of Chloroquine Diphosphate as Adjunctive Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Borba MGS, Val FFA, Sampaio VS, Alexandre MAA, Melo GC et al.; CloroCovid-19 Team.
JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Apr 24;3(4.23):e208857 FREE

Characteristics of Hospitalized Adults With COVID-19 in an Integrated Health Care System in California.
Myers LC, Parodi SM, Escobar GJ, Liu VX.
JAMA. 2020 Apr 24. Online ahead of print FREE

Cardiac Surgery in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Guidance Statement From the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons.
Hassan A, Arora RC, Adams C, Bouchard D, Cook R et al.; Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons.
Can J Cardiol. 2020 Apr 8. Online ahead of print FREE

COVID-19: Crisis Management in Congenital Heart Surgery.
Stephens EH, Dearani JA, Guleserian KJ, Overman DM, Tweddell JS et al.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 Apr 11. Online ahead of print FREE

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in the Treatment of Severe Pulmonary and Cardiac Compromise in COVID-19: Experience with 32 patients.
Jacobs JP, Stammers AH, St Louis J, Hayanga JWA, Firstenberg MS et al.
ASAIO J. 2020 Apr 17. Online ahead of print FREE

Nationwide system to centralize decisions around ECMO use for severe COVID-19 pneumonia in Japan
Abe R, Fujino Y, Fujizuka K, Hagiwara Y, Hara Y et al.;Japan ECMsOnet for COVID-19 (Special Correspondence).
J Intensive Care 8, 29 (2020) FREE

COVID-19 FAQ's in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery.
Levy E, Blumenthal J, Chiotos K, Dearani JA.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2020 Apr 21. Online ahead of print FREE