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Beating donor heart transplant 

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

Stephen DeVries, PA-C @SDeVriesPAC

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

Vandy Perfusion and Donor Recovery team travel over 4000
Heart Transplant ... Transportation - Organ ... #Transplant #Donor ... #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical
Donor Heart Awaiting Transplant

Reanimated human heart from a DCD donor. 20min of no cardiac function before
Donor Heart Awaiting ... #Transplant #Donor ... #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... beating #cardiac #organ
Shock - Differential Diagnosis Framework
 - MAP <65. SBP <90, drop in SBP > 40
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Shock - Differential ... SBP > 40 - End-organ ... malperfusion - Lactate ... Distributive: Sepsis ... #management
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
Lactic Acidosis - Differential ... shock/hypoxemia/Sepsis ... Both of these organs ... regional ischemia, surgery ... syndrome - Sepsis
Peri-operative Hyperthermia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
If prolonged or ≥ 39 C this is a
emergency: permanent organ ... Treatment depends ... anaesthesia • Sepsis ... #Hyperthermia #Differential ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
purpuric rash) • Heart ... brucellosis) • Sepsis ... Triglycerides • ↑ Lactate ... Treatment: • Corticosteroids ... Syndrome #Diagnosis #Management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
cirrhosis, or organ ... Hematopoietic stem cell transplant ... Isolated fever • Septic ... • Meningitis, septic ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management