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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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Our O.R. Work Environment is 3.5 x UNHEALTHIER than the American Business Sector!
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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Plz Take This Survey: #PerfusionToo!
Editor’s Note: I have been in medicine my entire life. Janitor-Crisis Center Volunteer-EMT-Navy Hospital Corpsman-Surgical Scrub Tech-1st Assistant-Perfusionist. That covers a few decades, 60+ hospitals, and a lot of medical professionals to meet, greet, and work with. Obviously, with that sort of exposure, you see a lot of things, and colleagues share their thoughts, feelings,…
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A Locum’s ScrapBook: Sometimes… The Bear Gets YOU…
Editor’s Note: Just when you get to the comfort zone of thinking “you are pretty good”? You find out you’re pretty NOT! But don’t get knocked down and NOT get back up. Shit happens, and it happens to all of us. To view the entire “Locum’s ScrapBook” series- click here Sometimes… The Bear Gets YOU… As in everything in…
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger…
The take home message on this is that I believe in Miracles– And we could use a few of those- so never give up. That’s a shout out to: Our Staff: Our Patients: Patient Families: Our Families _____________ How did I get Here? So I found myself driving South of the Ohio River once again to head back to Daniel Boone country,…
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What is It that We Do?
Perfusion 101 If you were wondering what a perfusionist is, basically it can be summed up as “we stop your heart to keep you alive”, an almost paradoxical statement for a profession so few realize even exists. As the title on the cover says, this is a book on open heart surgery in America, and…
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Hello World 🙂
This is a new blog designed to connect our perfusion community as a whole (domestic as well as international) to one another. It has no agenda, other to educate and to share some of the exciting principals, stories, technologies that we as perfusionists all around the globe- utilize and deliver every day. This book is…
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