Samuel Weinstein, MD, MBA
President and Chief Medical Officer
January 6, 2017
Brown-Brukardt Perfusion Scholarship. While some of these initiatives receive more exposure than others, they all create additional value for our customers.
Some of our efforts are more visible and impact patient care more directly. As an advisor on the Food and Drug Administration’s Circulatory Devices Panel tasked with addressing the nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) outbreak, our perfusion leadership has written extensively on the subject and continues to promote patient safety through recommendations and innovative practices. Members of our clinical team regularly share their experience and knowledge of proven techniques and the latest technologies with other healthcare providers in hospitals, classrooms, and industry meetings designed to educate and inform.
Our medical office, using data from the SpecialtyCare Operative Procedural Registry (SCOPE™), elevated our ability to set evidence-based clinical standards in 2016. This is a significant differentiator from our competitors. We presented original intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) research to members of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring, the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and the North American Spine Society, where our work received “Best Paper” designation. We also conducted and released original perfusion research at meetings of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery), the American Academy of Cardiovascular Perfusion, the American Society of Extracorporeal Technology (published in the Journal of Extracorporeal Technology), and the American Heart Association. (See below for links to recent research.)
The clinical insights derived from SCOPE are applied every day in the OR by our skilled professionals and disseminated directly to our hospitals, surgeon partners, their teams, and others across the industry. This is our approach to improving the delivery of healthcare: dedicated men and women using evidence-based information to elevate clinical practice that improves patient outcomes. We lived this model in 2016 and will continue to expand it in 2017. We will monitor the healthcare landscape and be prepared to support our customers regardless of the changes and challenges that arise. As always, we will spend every day focused on providing the highest quality patient care while containing costs, because improving value is the best way to provide certainty in an uncertain healthcare environment.
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Perfusion Research
- Application of Goal-Directed Therapy for the use of Concentrated Antithrombin for Heparin Resistance during Cardiac Surgery (AmSECT)
- Comparative Clinical Effectiveness of Intraoperative Autotransfusion during Cardiac Surgery: Does the Type of Device Make a Difference? (AACP – Outstanding Presentation)
- Factors Influencing Intraoperative Glycemic Control During Cardiac Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass (AmSECT)
- Gender Differences in Intra-Operative Blood Transfusions (AHA)
- Goal-Directed Perfusion Methodology for Determining Oxygenator Performance during Clinical Cardiopulmonary Bypass (AACP)
- The Heater Cooler as a Source of Infection from Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (JECT article)
- Obesity Beyond a BMI > 35 Does Not Protect Patients Undergoing Cardiac Bypass Surgery from Red Blood Cell Transfusion (AACP, Perfusion)
- The Unintended Consequences of Over Reducing Cardiopulmonary Bypass Circuit Prime Volume (STS)
Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM) Research
- Incidence and Resolution of Neuromonitoring Alerts During Extradural Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Surgery (AANS)
- Neurologic Outcome Following Intraoperative Neurophysiological Signal Change in Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, and Multiregional Spine Surgery (NASS – Best Paper)
- Neurologic Outcomes Following Differential Resolution of Neuromonitoring Alerts during Extradural Spine Surgery (AANS)
- Neuromonitoring Changes and Neurologic Outcome by Approach and Number of Levels in Extradural Cervical Spine Surgery (ACNS)
- TcMEPs and Pregnancy (ASNM)
- Utilization Rates of Transcranial Electric Motor Evoked Potential (tceMEP) Monitoring During Extradural Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbosacral Spine Surgery in Large and Small Centers (AAN)
