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Perfusion System Hardware

New generation heart-lung machines capitalize on technology advances to enhance safety and ease-of-use. The Terumo® Advanced Perfusion System 1 is the only heart-lung machine designed on a Controller Area Network, or CAN.

Information provided on this website is not intended to make claims that the products are safe and effective for any use other than those explicitly described in the Instructions for Use. Clinicians should refer to the Instructions for Use or Owner's Manuals for complete information on the intended use of any product mentioned in this website.

CASE STUDY: Bloodless Surgery for Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients
Dave Fitzgerald, CCP, describes how the INOVA Fairfax Hospital team has adopted Jehovahs Witnesses blood management strategies for all patients- adults and pediatric.
CASE STUDY: Microplegia Protocol Results in $80,000 Savings for 450 Case Program
Westmoreland Hospital's pharmacy analysis shows the cost advantages of a microplegia protocol using the Master/Follower capability of Terumo® Advanced Perfusion System 1.
NEW! CDROM: Prescription Oxygenation: Using data to improve blood management
Sean Murtha, CCP, discusses blood management results at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, Florida during his Optimizing Cardiac Surgery Symposia presentation in Newport Beach, California in February 2010.
NEW! CDROM: Controlling SIRS: Can new technology impact outcomes?
Uwe Schonrock, CCP, discusses the use and results of a minimized circuit at Braunschweig Klinikum in Germany during his Optimizing Cardiac Surgery Symposia presentation in Newport Beach, California in February 2010.
CD-ROM: Blood Management: Are We Doing The Best We Can? The Proof Is In The Data
Sean Murtha, CCP, shares how clinical data is used to improve blood management programs at the Optimizing Cardiac Surgery Symposium in Orlando in May 2009.
POWERPOINT: The Benefits of Using a Remote Pump System for Children Undergoing Open Heart Surgery
Todd Smyre, CCP, offers his findings on blood conservation using a remote mounted pump for children undergoing open heart surgery at an Optimizing Cardiac Surgery Symposia in April 2005.
CDROM: Optimizing Pediatric Circuit Design Utilizing Terumo® Advanced Perfusion System 1
Brad Kulat, CCP, presents the "Flying V" circuit configuration as a means to reduce prime and blood usage at the 2007 Optimizing Cardiac Surgery Symposia Series.
CD-ROM: CSI Perfusion: Discovering the Evidence for Effective Blood Management
David Fitzgerald, CCP, shares results from the blood management program at Inova Heart and Vascular Institute at the Optimizing Cardiac Surgery Symposium in Orlando in May 2009.
CDROM: Air Emboli: Source and Impact
David Stump, PhD, offers strategies to reduce the number of cerebral emboli at the March 2007 San Diego Optimizing Cardiac Surgery Symposium.
SYNOPSIS: Reducing a patient's exposure to banked blood . . . priceless.
At the San Diego Optimizing Cardiac Surgery Symposium (February 2008), David Fitzgerald, CCP, Joseph Basha, CCP, Jim Patterson, CCP, and Brad Kulat, CCP presented cost savings resulting from blood management programs.
ABSTRACT: Beneficial Effects of Modern Perfusion Concepts in Aortic Valve and Aortic Root Surgery. Perfusion 2009;24: 37-44, Kutschka, et al.
In this 170-patient study, the use of the ROCSafe™ Hybrid Perfusion System was found to reduce side effects of standard extracorporeal circulation.
ABSTRACT: Bloodless Cardiac Surgery and the Pediatric Patient: A Case Study. Perfusion 2008; 23: 131-134. Ging, AL et al.
The authors present blood management strategies in which a 5.9 kg Jehovah's Witness patient underwent successful correction of a VSD without the use of transfusions.
ABSTRACT: Optimizing Circuit Design Using a Remote-mounted Perfusion System. JECT 2009;41:28-31. Kulat, et al.
In this 62-patient pediatric study, the authors found that use of remotely mounted pump heads resulted in reduced priming volumes and less exposure to banked blood.
ABSTRACT: Manufacturers' Approaches in the Development of Intelligent Multilevel Safety Systems to Assist Perfusionists During Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Perfusion 2005; 20:227-232. Kriewall T.
Mr. Kriewall describes how technology advances have incorporated multiple safety levels and more intuitive interfaces in heart-lung machines citing Terumo® Advanced Perfusion System 1 as an example.
ABSTRACT: A New Minimized Perfusion Circuit Provides Highly Effective Ultrasound Controlled Deairing. Artificial Organs. 2007 Mar; 31(3):215-220, Kutschka, et al.
This study compared a ROCSafe™ Hybrid Perfusion System to conventional perfusion circuit and results indicated that active venous deairing was significantly reduced compared to passive deairing on a conventional circuit.
ABSTRACT: Aprotinin for Primary Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Multicenter Trial of Three Dose Regimens. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1996;62:1659-1668. Lemmer, et al.
The study compares high and low dose Aprotinin to low dose in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.