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Heart Transplant Transportation - Organ Care System (OCS)

Stephen DeVries, PA-C @SDeVriesPAC

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

A heart I transplanted recently on the Organ Care System. Amazing technology
Beating donor heart ... Donor #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... #cardiac #Transportation ... #OCS #organ
Palpitations - Differential Diagnosis Framework

What?
• It is an unpleasant awareness or sensation that the heart is
Palpitations - Differential ... muscle twitching CARDIAC ... Nonarrhythmic Cardiac ... /Afib/WPW) • Loss ... Palpitations #Cardiology #Differential
Heart Transplant Transportation - Organ Care System (OCS)

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

Reanimated human heart from a DCD donor. 20min of no cardiac function before
donor. 20min of no cardiac ... Donor #thoracic #surgery ... #CTS #clinical ... #video #beating ... #cardiac #organ
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 ... postoperative cardiac ... CARP, DECREASE V trials
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
Lactic Acidosis - Differential ... Both of these organs ... regional ischemia, surgery ... perfusion - Cardiac ... failure - Low cardiac
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
RGM • Plastic surgery ... /Other RGM • Cardiac ... surgery: M. chimaera ... seeding of other organs ... NTM #Infections #differential