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Heart Transplant Transportation - Organ Care System (OCS)

Stephen DeVries, PA-C @SDeVriesPAC

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

Vandy Perfusion and Donor Recovery team travel over 4000
Transportation - Organ ... Donor #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... #video #beating ... #organ
Beating donor heart transplant 

A heart I transplanted recently on the Organ Care System. Amazing technology
recently on the Organ ... Donor #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... Transportation #OCS ... #organ
Sepsis - Diagnosis and Management
Life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection
SEPTIC SHOCK
Sepsis - Diagnosis ... Life-threatening organ ... dysfunction caused ... AMS (GCS < 15) ... recognition and treatment
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
 - MAP <65. SBP <90, drop in SBP > 40
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SBP > 40 - End-organ ... Distributive: Sepsis ... Losses, Third Spacing ... #criticalcare #algorithm ... #treatment #management
Peri-operative Hyperthermia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
If prolonged or ≥ 39 C this is a
emergency: permanent organ ... Treatment depends ... maintained fever CAUSES ... anaesthesia • Sepsis ... • Traumatic brain
Pediatric Vomiting - Gastrointestinal and Systemic Causes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Hepatobiliary:
 • Acute Hepatitis
 • Acute
Gastrointestinal and Systemic Causes ... Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Systemic - Other: • Sepsis ... Head Trauma • Brain ... #Causes #Peds #
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
urine, sweat) - its ... shock/hypoxemia/Sepsis ... Both of these organs ... regional ischemia, surgery ... syndrome - Sepsis
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) Overview

Increased Clotting and Consumption of Clotting Factors

Findings:
 • Bleeding
 • Recent history
history of trauma, sepsis ... Fibrinolysis → End organ ... + Bleeding Treatment ... Treat primary cause ... #treatment #management
June is recognized as International #Scoliosis Awareness month with the goal of public education, early detection
scoliosis and its ... define a definite cause ... to successful treatment ... methods, with #bracing ... spinal #fusion #surgery