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

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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

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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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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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