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Heart Transplant Transportation - Organ Care System (OCS)

Stephen DeVries, PA-C @SDeVriesPAC

#Heart #Transplant #Donor #thoracic #surgery #CTS
#Transplant #Donor ... #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... #video #beating ... #OCS #organ
Heart Transplant Transportation - Organ Care System (OCS)

Vandy Perfusion and Donor Recovery team travel over 4000
#thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... #video #beating ... #cardiac #Transportation ... #OCS #organ
Heart Donor Transplant Transportation

Hanin Alashi, CCP @iNeena

#Heart #Transplant #Donor #thoracic #surgery #CTS #clinical #video #beating #cardiac
Heart Donor Transplant ... #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... #video #beating ... #cardiac #OCS
Beating donor heart transplant 

A heart I transplanted recently on the Organ Care System. Amazing technology
Beating donor heart ... #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... #cardiac #Transportation ... #OCS #organ
Donor Heart Awaiting Transplant

Reanimated human heart from a DCD donor. 20min of no cardiac function before
Donor Heart Awaiting ... #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... #video #beating ... #cardiac #organ
Ex-vivo angiography of a transplant heart. Further widening of the donor pool!

- James Nadel @jimmy_nardel

#Exvivo #angiography
of a transplant heart ... widening of the donor ... #cardiac #thoracic ... #surgery #cts # ... clinical #cardiology
Aortic Dissection Pearls
Aortic dissection is caused by a tear in the tunica intima, the innermost layer
Connective tissue disorder ... disease • Cardiac ... surgery/catheterization ... • Thoracic ... opiates • Control heart
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
exam Determine Cardiac ... a) Ischemic heart ... Change in clinical ... upper abdominal/thoracic ... postoperative cardiac
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome - Diagnosis and Management Summary
A defect in arterial oxygenation due to a gas exchange
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome ... a gas exchange disorder ... shunt (Type 2) Clinical ... appear in left heart ... 3-6 cardiac cycles
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
urine, sweat) - its ... Both of these organs ... regional ischemia, surgery ... perfusion - Cardiac ... - Compartment syndrome