Primers
Basic Primers
- Language in the heart room
- Heparin, protamine, antifibrinolytics
- The CPB circuit
- Preoperative assessment of the cardiac patient (including risk stratification)
- Monitoring our patients (awareness, cerebral and tissue oximetry, PAC)
- Going on, weaning from, and staying off CPB
- Transitioning care to ICU (will have link to PDF for Lindsay’s signout sheet)
- Blood conservation (anesthesia + perfusion strategies, Hct goals)
- Vasopressors and vasodilators (will have link to Standard Dilution sheet)
- Inotropes (will have link to Standard Dilution sheet)
- Fluid choices and rapid delivery systems
Advanced Primers
- Assessing perfusion during CPB
- Advanced coagulation monitoring and management of bleeding (TEG, ROTEM, blood products, factor concentrates)
- Arrhythmia and pacemaker management in the pump room
- Blood gas management (pH vs alpha stat)
- Pulmonary hypertension agents
- Protecting the heart, brain and spinal cord
- Circulatory arrest and protecting the brain
- ECMO
- Intra-aortic Balloon Pumps
- Effusions and tamponade