Fighting Back! Setup Your Own Dept Covid Symptoms Database
Editor’s Note: These days when someone sneezes or coughs- EVERYBODY turns and looks. Herd mentality for sure. The main symptoms of COVID-19 Include a cough, shortness of breath and a fever. Additionally, you might have digestive problems ― like nausea or diarrhea ― a headache and a sore throat. At the onset of the illness,…
Perfusion Policies 101: Agatroban
Editor’s Note: Well it was one of those mornings where you are driving into work to do a routine cell saver case when all of a sudden your phone blows up and you are getting calls from the hospital operating room desk as well as several colleagues trying to figure out what is going on…
Perfusion Policies 101: Custodial Cardioplegia
Editor’s Note: Renee is a colleague I work with quite often. She is an amazing perfusionist as well as administrator, mom, and just a decent all around human being. She has a pretty scathing wit- so beware. She offered to share a policy on the administration of CUSTODIAL THK Cardioplegia. This is a collaborative…
Perfusion Policies 101: Anticoagulation Reversal
Renee Toth, BS, CCP Editor’s Note: Renee is a colleague I work with quite often. She is an amazing perfusionist as well as administrator, mom, and just a decent all around human being. She has a pretty scathing wit- so beware. She offered to share a policy she has worked on for a quite…
Perfusion Policies 101: Perfusion & the Pregnant Patient
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic…
Perfusion Polices 101: Malignant Hyperthermia
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes…
Perfusion Policies 101: HyperKalemia
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: Gas Embolism
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: DIC
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: Cold Agglutinins
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: AntiThrombin III (AT3) Deficiency
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: Protamine Administration and Reaction
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: Oxygenator Changeout
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: Nitric Oxide
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: Priming the CardioHelp ECLS
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: I-STAT
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion 101: Clear Prime Replacement (RAP)
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes…
Perfusion Policies 101: Conduct of CPB
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: Blood Administration
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: IABP
Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided to assist your programs with that one puzzle piece we all run into now and then- that one time that an unexpected patient condition may give you pause… The intention here is to disseminate some basic recipes that…
Perfusion Policies 101: Autotransfusion
Autotransfusion General Description Intraoperative autotransfusion is used to recover shed blood from the surgical site or post-bypass pump volume. The blood is centrifuged and rinsed with normal saline in a Cell Saver (Haemonetics) or Cobe BRAT (Cobe Cardiovascualr), with the plasma and wash solution being discarded. The resulting washed red blood cells with a…
Perfusion Policies 101: Vacuum Assisted Venous Return
“Most clinicians, when challenged as to what the basis is that they referenced a clinical decision on, will obviously defer to their residency or training program and cite a clinical policy- whether institutionally based, or part of the public domain.” Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided…
Perfusion Policies 101: Left Heart Bypass
“Most clinicians, when challenged as to what the basis is that they referenced a clinical decision on, will obviously defer to their residency or training program and cite a clinical policy- whether institutionally based, or part of the public domain.” Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided…
Perfusion Policies 101: Adult ECMO
“Most clinicians, when challenged as to what the basis is that they referenced a clinical decision on, will obviously defer to their residency or training program and cite a clinical policy- whether institutionally based, or part of the public domain.” Editor’s Note: PERFUSION POLICIES 101 Welcome to PERFUSION POLICIES 101. This will be a continuing series provided…
