Perfusion describes when fluids such as blood and lymph pass through tissue. A perfusionist is a professional who operates machinery when this process requires assistance, such as during heart surgery ...

When doing open-heart surgery, the surgeon needs a still heart and lungs to work. The patient still needs oxygen circulated through the bloodstream to survive. Thus, cardiovascular perfusionists (also ...

A perfusionist is someone who specializes in operating the heart/lung machine during open-heart surgery. We operate various pieces of equipment during open-heart surgery. We're acting as the patient's ...

Eric Michael, a UPMC perfusionist, describes how a cell saver device collects a patient's lost blood during surgery and recycles the red blood cells.

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A perfusionist or clinical perfusionist is a medical specialist who operates the “heart-lung” machine during open heart surgery, cell saver, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), intra-aortic ...

Mercy Medical Center cardiac perfusionist Chad Brady sits by the hospital's heart-lung machine that he operates. The machine, which is two years old and cost $80,000, maintains the circulation of ...

After years of having sleepless nights, sweat and tears, Nelago Embula recently landed the biggest first-place finish of her life by becoming the first Namibian-born clinical technologist, ...