Best Practices in Perfusion 2007

Selected presentations and abstracts are available and can be downloaded as PDF or in Shockwave version.

To see the full program of this meeting, click here.

Session 1: Quality Improvement Training Skills

Platelet Preservation: Do Perfusion Strategies Really Make a Difference?
Gordon R. DeFoe, CCP


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Session 2: Quality Improvement Training Skills

Using Evidence and Context Knowledge to Change the Culture of your Microsystem
Robert C. Groom, MS, CCP


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Session 3: Cycles of Change in Your System of Delivery Care

The Clinical Microsystem - Where Quality is Made or Lost
Robert C. Groom, MS, CCP

PPT version or Shockwave version

Session 4: Statistical Research Control Theory

Using Statistical Run Charts to Improve Clinical Practices
Robert A. Baker, PhD, CCP(Aus)

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Session 6: Oral Abstracts

From Theory to Clinical Practice: A Change in Myocardial Preservation Strategies Using the Quest Medical MPS 2 System
Jim McDonald, CPC, CCP (Can)

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The Clinical Relevance of Ventilation During CPB in the Prevention of Lung Dysfunction in the Post-operative Period
Julie Gagnon, BSc, MSc

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or Shockwave version

Absolute cerebral oximetry guides early recognition / treatment of hypercapnea and cerebral desaturation.
Gregory W. Fischer, M.D.

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Session 7: Adult & Pediatric Clinical Registries for Cardiac Surgery

A Regional Perfusion Registry – The Good and the Bad
Gordon R. DeFoe, CCP

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International Perfusion Registry – Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls
Donald S. Likosky, PhD

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Session 8: Transparency and Public Reporting

History of Transparency and Public Reporting and Terminology 101
Veena Guru, MD

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Defining the Metrics
Gordon R. DeFoe, CCP

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Critical Appraisal of Risk-adjusted Analysis and Public Reporting of Outcomes
in Cardiac Surgery

Jean-Yves Dupuis, MD, FRCPC

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Stakeholder Views and Roundtable Discussion
Donald S. Likosky, PhD.

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Session 9: GRC Update

Understanding the Conundrum of Legal Credentialing as a Best Practice Initiative
Robert D. Longenecker, CCP, LCP

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Session 10: International Symposium

Perfusion education in Europe

Heinz Weitkemper

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Education and Certification in the Netherlands

Kees Visser, BSC, EKP

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