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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 ... thoracic #surgery #CTS ... #clinical #video ... #beating #cardiac
Beating donor heart transplant 

A heart I transplanted recently on the Organ Care System. Amazing technology
recently on the Organ ... thoracic #surgery #CTS ... #clinical #video ... #beating #cardiac ... Transportation #OCS #organ
Heat Illnesses and Heat Stroke - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Heat Cramps:
 • Muscle pain or spasm -
Heat Stroke - Differential ... maintain adequate cardiac ... Organ and tissue ... #illness #differential ... #diagnosis #causes
Heart Transplant Transportation - Organ Care System (OCS)

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

Reanimated human heart from a DCD donor. 20min of no cardiac function before
donor. 20min of no cardiac ... thoracic #surgery #CTS ... #clinical #video ... #beating #cardiac ... #organ
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis and Causes
Clinical: Dyspnea, Exercise Intolerance, ↑ "Right Sided-Symptoms" (ascites, hepatomegaly, ↑↑peripheral edema)
Physical
Clinical: Dyspnea ... Echocardiography, Cardiac ... MRI, Cardiac Catheterization ... Hyper-eosinophilc Syndrome ... #differential #
Portal Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis
Portal Pressure = the pressure difference between the pressure in the portal
Hypertension - Differential ... >10 mmHg - clinically ... Post-Hepatic: • Cardiac ... R heart failure ... #Diagnosis #causes
Syncope is a sudden, transient loss of consciousness, which is thought to be secondary to cerebral
be divided into cardiac ... or structural heart ... carotid sinus syndrome ... syncope (ruling out differential ... should be guided by clinical
Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
changes and may cause ... severe clinical ... thiamine) Late: • Cardiac ... • Congestive heart ... #Nutrition #Differential
Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
Hypertension - Workup and Differential ... and signs of end-organ ... or papilledema, heart ... 109 mm Hg) with clinical ... #Differential #