AMERICAN SOCIETY OF EXTRACORPOREAL TECHNOLOGY

The National Society of Perfusionists

 

Educational Opportunities
The Journal of ExtraCorporeal Technology

Volume 40, Number 3 - September 2008

FROM THE EDITOR

153 The Fall of Sardis: The Power of Observation
Robert Groom

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

159 The Perfusion Downunder Collaborative Database Project
Richard Newland, Robert A. Baker, Rebecca Stanley, Katherine Place, Timothy W. Willcox on behalf of the Perfusion Downunder Collaboration

166 North American Neonatal Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Devices and Team Roles: 2008 Survey Results of Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) Centers
D. Scott Lawson, Andrea F. Lawson, Rich Walczak, Craig McRobb, Patty McDermott, Ian R. Shearer, Andrew Lodge, James Jaggers

175 Evaluation of the Doppler Technique for Fat Emboli Detection in an Experimental Flow Model
Victoria Wikstrand, Nadja Linder, Karl Gunnar Engström

184 Measurements of Recirculation during Neonatal Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Clinical Application of the Ultrasound Dilution Technique
David Clements, Johanna Primmer, Pamela Ryman, Bonnie Marr, Bruce Searles, Edward Darling

188 Extracorporeal Tubing in the Roller Pump Raceway: Physical Changes and Particulate Generation
Allison J. Bednarski Spiwak, Alexander Horbal, Robert Leatherbury, Derek J. Hansford

193 Does a Delay in Performing an Activated Clotting (ACT) Test Really Matter? A Study in Nonheparinized Blood and a Single ACT Machine
Bridget M. Philip, John G. Brock-Utne, Harry J.M. Lemmens, Richard A. Jaffe, Paul E. Shuttleworth

196 Autologous Platelet Gel Fails to Show Beneficial Effects on Wound Healing after Saphenectomy in CABG Patients
Dirk Buchwald, Christian Kaltschmidt, Helmut Haardt, Axel Laczkovics, Delawer Reber

CASE REPORTS

203 Excellent Outcomes in a Case of Complex Re-do Surgery Requiring Prolonged Cardioplegia Using a New Cardioprotective Approach: Adenocaine
James J. O’Rullian, Stephen E. Clayson, Raul Peragallo

206 Methylene Blue-induced Methemoglobinemia during Cardiopulmonary Bypass? A Case Report and Literature Review
Craig M. McRobb, David W. Holt

DEPARTMENTS

215 Instructions for Authors

219 Calendar of Events