2024 EACTS/EACTAIC Guidelines on patient blood management in adult cardiac surgery in collaboration with EBCP | European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery | Oxford Academic
Cardiac surgery is a distinctive surgical discipline that often necessitates the use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and full anticoagulation intraoperatively, along with varying levels of antithrombotic treatments both before and after the cardiac procedures. As a result, implementing precise anticoagulation strategies and meticulously monitoring reversal throughout the…
AmSECT Standards and Guidelines For Perfusion Practice (2023)
The American Society of ExtraCorporeal Technology (AmSECT) has created the following document based on clinical evidence and currently accepted perfusion practices. Perfusionists are the only allied healthcare professionals formally trained and educated in the field of extracorporeal science and whose scope of practice expressly includes the utilization of extracorporeal devices. The document is intended to serve as a useful guide for teams developing institution-specific protocols to improve the reliability, safety, and effectiveness of extracorporeal support servi…
AmSECT Standards and Guidelines for Pediatric and Congenital Perfusion Practice (2019)
The American Society of ExtraCorporeal Technology (AmSECT) has created the following document based on clinical evidence and currently accepted perfusion practices. Perfusionists are the only allied healthcare professionals formally trained and educated in the field of extracorporeal science and whose scope of practice expressly includes the utilization of extracorporeal devices The document is intended to serve as a useful guid…
AmSECT Standards and Guidelines For Mechanical Circulatory Support (2017)
The goal of this project was to provide perfusionists with a framework to guide safe and effective MCS care to their patients. AmSECT recommends that clinical teams use this document as a guide for developing institution-specific protocols for patients receiving MCS…
Guidelines for Conduct of Cardiopulmonary Bypass
HE USE of cardiopulmonary bypass has enabled the delivery of complex cardiovascular surgical procedures. Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), at its best, involves a highly technical process that is executed carefully through a complex interaction among a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, and a cardiovascular perfusionist…
Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Guideline for Transport and Retrieval of Adult and Pediatric Patients with ECMO Support
This guideline for the preparation for and undertaking of transport and retrieval of patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is intended for educational use to build the knowledge of physicians and other health professionals in assessing the conditions and managing the treatment of patients undergoing ECLS / ECMO and describe what are believed to be useful and safe practice for extracorporeal life support (ECLS, ECMO) but…
ELSO Guidelines for Adult and Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Circuits
This guideline describes the ECMO circuit for all patient populations. These guidelines describe safe practice based on extensive experience and are considered consensus guidelines. These guidelines are not intended to define standard of care and are revised at regular intervals as new information, devices, medications, and techniques become available…
STS/SCA/AmSECT/SABM Update to the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Blood Management
STS/SCA/AmSECT/SABM Update to the Clinical Practice Guidelines on Patient Blood Management…
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, The Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and The American Society of ExtraCorporeal Technology: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Bypass–Temperature Management During Cardiopulmonary Bypass
In order to improve our understanding of the evidence-based literature supporting temperature management during adult cardiopulmonary bypass, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology and the American Society of ExtraCorporeal Technology tasked the authors to conduct a review of the peer-reviewed literature, including: 1) optimal site for temperature monitoring, 2) avoidance of hyperth…