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Heart Transplant Transportation - Organ Care System (OCS)

Stephen DeVries, PA-C @SDeVriesPAC

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

Vandy Perfusion and Donor Recovery team travel over 4000
Heart Transplant ... Transportation ... - Organ Care System ... #surgery #CTS # ... #OCS #organ
Aortic Dissection Pearls
Aortic dissection is caused by a tear in the tunica intima, the innermost layer
Aortic Dissection ... Connective tissue disorder ... • Cardiac surgery ... catheterization • Thoracic ... opiates • Control heart
Beating donor heart transplant 

A heart I transplanted recently on the Organ Care System. Amazing technology
recently on the Organ ... Transplant #Donor #thoracic ... #surgery #CTS # ... beating #cardiac #Transportation ... #OCS #organ
Aortic Dissection - Diagnosis and Management Summary
 • HPI: sudden onset, "tearing" chest pain, radiation to
Aortic Dissection ... connective tissue disorder ... FHx • Imaging: CTA ... Dissection protocol ... Management #summary #treatment
This is a suprasternal notch view demonstrating an aortic flap in a patient with a Stanford
B thoracic aortic ... dissection. ... allowed the CV surgeon ... and standard treatment ... aortic dissection
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 ... before beginning treatment ... glycol - HIV/HAART
Pheochromocytoma - Diagnosis and Management Summary
10 percent rule = 10% of pheochromocytomas are extra-adrenal, multiple, bilateral,
and panic attack-type ... changes, and other organ ... leukocytosis, psychiatric disorders ... of anesthesia, surgery ... glucose, apparent type
Relapsing Polychondritis

What is it?
Recurrent inflammation of the cartilage in the body (Autoimmune disorder)

Who?
• Most frequently: 40
body (Autoimmune disorder ... Large vessels (aorta ... Kidneys • Other organs ... Antibodies to type ... affected tissue Treatment