Category: ECMO

September 2023 Webinar: “Great Documentation-Not Something to Bypass!”

Join us in discussing clinical documentation with Debra Weinrich, LLP. Learning Objectives Include: -Identify some common documentation problems and issues -Identify some possible negative impacts associated with poor documentation -Identify several ways to improve your clinical…

“Can Stress Be Managed or Just Tolerated?” Webinar

"Can Stress Be Managed or Just Tolerated?" Webinar

An emerging crisis in the healthcare environment inflicting illness and hardship on untold numbers of individuals. This silent epidemic is not being borne by patients treated at clinics and hospitals, but by those charged with administering…

“ECMO in COVID-19 Patients” Webinar

ECMO in COVID-19 Patients

SpecialtyCare hosted an educational one-hour webinar. We welcome you to join fellow perfusionists to hear from Irfan Khan, MD, Medical Director of PICU at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. The webinar explains the need for ECMO in COVID-19…

Multi-Institutional Analysis of 505 COVID-19 Patients Supported with ECMO: Predictors of Survival

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On February 18, 2022, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery published an important manuscript titled: “Multi-institutional Analysis of 505 COVID-19 Patients Supported with ECMO: Predictors of Survival”. The purpose of this study was to review the clinical…

Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD, FACS, FACC, FCCP, to Present Abstract at AATS 2022

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Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD, FACS, FACC, FCCP, will present an abstract on the Variation in Survival Over Time in Patients with COVID-19 Supported with ECMO: A Multi-institutional analysis of 471 consecutive COVID-19 patients supported with ECMO…

Valuing Others with Actions

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SpecialtyCare is honored to share that one of our patients at Swedish Medical Center, Nate McWilliams, who spent 158 days in the hospital—91 of those on ECMO—was recently released from the hospital. We want to acknowledge…

Perfusion Leaders Highlight with Artem Zhosan

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Artem Zhosan is an ECMO specialist at SpecialtyCare, currently working in the Los Angeles area. Here, we highlight his career path of being a perfusionist in Ukraine to becoming an RN and ECMO specialist in the…

Multi-institutional Analysis of 200 COVID-19 Patients treated with ECMO: Outcomes and Trends

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An abstract has been written for submission to the Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society 2021 Meeting, to include a manuscript and presentation. It has been accepted for publication in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. The work examines…

Noteable Manuscripts, Abstracts, and Presentations

Below, you will find a list of resources that have been crafted with the dedication, expertise, and precision of some of the leaders in the perfusion industry. The impressive list of peer-reviewed publications, published abstracts, and…

Checking the Vitals with Kurt Strudwick

Joining us today is Kurt Strudwick, a clinical educator for ECMO services at Specialty Care. In today’s episode we talked to Kurt about how a family tragedy in his youth led him to have a passion…