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Heart Transplant Transportation - Organ Care System (OCS)

Stephen DeVries, PA-C @SDeVriesPAC

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

A heart I transplanted recently on the Organ Care System. Amazing technology
Beating donor heart ... heart I transplanted ... #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... Transportation #OCS
Heart Transplant Transportation - Organ Care System (OCS)

Vandy Perfusion and Donor Recovery team travel over 4000
Heart Transplant ... #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... #video #beating ... #organ
Peri-operative Hyperthermia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
If prolonged or ≥ 39 C this is a
emergency: permanent organ ... Treatment depends ... anaesthesia • Sepsis ... Differential #Causes #Anesthesiology ... Diagnosis #Management #Workup
Increased Airway Pressure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Using these steps from start to end should
• Consider surgery ... be replaced or its ... Circulation • Check heart ... #Differential #Anesthesiology ... Diagnosis #Management #Workup
Hypotension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Hypotension is commonly due to unnecessarily deep anaesthesia, the autonomic
delivery • Pause surgery ... • Increase fresh ... toxicity → 3-10 o Sepsis ... #Differential #Anesthesiology ... Diagnosis #Management #Workup
Intraoperative Hypoxia / Desaturation / Cyanosis - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Using these steps from start
delivery • Pause surgery ... be replaced or its ... tamponade → 3-9 o Sepsis ... Hypoxia #Cyanosis #Anesthesiology ... #Management #Workup
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
shock/hypoxemia/Sepsis ... Both of these organs ... regional ischemia, surgery ... Circulatory System • Increased ... syndrome - Sepsis
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
cirrhosis, or organ ... Increased leukocyte ... lymphocytes) • Increased ... Hematopoietic stem cell transplant ... • Meningitis, septic