“Inside the Fight to Save Houston’s Most Vulnerable” Q&A with Kirti...
SpecialtyCare is honored to be a partner of Houston Methodist Hospital, working alongside their medical teams to provide perfusion services during cardiac surgery and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support for patients including those afflicted with COVID-19. Recently, the New York…
SpecialtyCare’s COVID-19 and ECMO Research Selected for the Opening...
SpecialtyCare is honored to share that our abstract entitled: “Experience with 46 patients with COVID-19 and Severe Pulmonary Compromise treated with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation,” has been selected for the opening presentation of the first scientific session at The Southern Thoracic…
ECMO and COVID-19 Webinar Draws Large Attendance as Healthcare Providers...
SpecialtyCare recently hosted two educational webinar opportunities for perfusionists and critical care physicians. Both sessions were focused on ECMO for patients with COVID-19 and discussed challenges, successes, and lessons learned. As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, perfusionists and critical care physicians…
SpecialtyCare Medical Department Collaborates with The American Society for...
SpecialtyCare’s real-time cohort of 32 patients across 9 states over 24 days is the largest published analysis to date of COVID-19 patients supported with ECMO. SpecialtyCare pledges to continue research and hopes to partner with other industry leaders to support…
Salvaging Patients’ Blood During Cardiac Surgery Can Be Good for Their...
The study, “The Influence of Intraoperative Autotransfusion on Postoperative Hematocrit after Cardiac Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study,” published in the December 2017 issue of The Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology. CLINICAL ISSUE The salvage and re-infusion of blood lost during surgery—a practice…
Performance-Based Assessment of Oxygenators Used During Cardiac Surgery
Findings of the study, “Goal-Directed Perfusion Methodology for Determining Oxygenator Performance during Clinical Cardiopulmonary Bypass,” were published in the June 2017 edition of the Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology. CLINICAL ISSUE During open-heart surgery, a cardiopulmonary bypass circuit often provides circulatory…
Real-Time Monitoring Improves Safety for Patients on Heart-Lung Machine
Study findings were detailed in the article “Will Real-Time Monitoring Technology be a Game Changer for Perfusion Safety?” published in the June 2017 edition of the Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology. CLINICAL ISSUE Most hospitals have adopted an electronic medical record…
Cardiac Surgery Patients Benefit From Pairing of Two Blood Conservation Methods
The study, “The effectiveness of acute normolvolemic hemodilution and autologous prime on intraoperative blood management during cardiac surgery,” published in the September 2017 issue of Perfusion. CLINICAL ISSUE There is near-universal agreement among clinicians that multiple strategies are needed to…
‘Obesity Paradox’ Doubtful for Blood Transfusion Risk
The study, “A BMI >35 does not protect patients undergoing cardiac bypass surgery from red blood cell transfusion,” was the first to reveal differences in the relationship between blood transfusion rate and obesity by category. It published January 1, 2017,…