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Maps out the intricacies of Open Heart Surgery, and openly engages the peaks and valleys of surgical, ethical, or moral-successes & failures. It highlights moments where lives are saved by the strength of the character of the team- as well as surgical strategies undone by flaws imbued in the highly trained individuals living and breathing this volatile work environment.
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Paper Tigers… Or a Legitimate Code of Ethics?
Editor’s Note: This is Not beating a dead horse after all- I think it’s pretty clear that it is certainly pretty inanimate and lifeless at this point- right? So it stands to reason that a dead horse obviously cant feel the frustration being laid upon it. But it still remains right there there in front…
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Reversing Your Code of Conduct: A Dialogue on Pumping With Your Oxygenator in Reverse
Editor’s Note: Perfusion is a dicey proposition when placing a patient on Cardiopulmonary Bypass. A lot of moving parts, a lot of equipment, a lot of potential for failure. Going on bypass is a very critical moment, similar to when an airplane lifts off. A lot of decisions and observations interplay simultaneously to either establish…
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A Locum’s ScrapBOOK: Hospitals 59, 60 & 61
_____________ Editor’s Note: Typically, I don’t combine three clinical sites into one story, but in this case- due to the calamity of the times this journey from the West coast to a pair of separate hospitals on the East coast remains a story inextricably intertwined. Hospital 59 – was in LA and is sort of…
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A Locum’s ScrapBOOK: Changing Faces
First a shout out- to a couple of very special people that helped me when it was clear I was kinda down and out for the count. Bryan and Kristy you know who you are 🙂 Thank YOU! I typically stray away from sharing any aspect of what motivates me- or causes me to totally…
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Perfusion Policies 101: Agatroban
Editor’s Note: Well it was one of those mornings where you are driving into work to do a routine cell saver case when all of a sudden your phone blows up and you are getting calls from the hospital operating room desk as well as several colleagues trying to figure out what is going on…
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88% of Female Respondents Claim a Hostile Work Environment in the CV Surgery Arena! # Perfusion2 Survey Results
Editor’s Note: Over the past few months, putting this survey together and constantly poking and prodding on social media to suggest participation- had certainly made me think whether or not “it was over the top” or “overly sensitive”- or a “grow a pair” (which is in-and-of-itself completely misogynistic) – and it certainly made me question…
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