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August 2002 Newsletter

SCA Breakfast Panel at ASA

Transfusion Issues in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease

SCA Breakfast Panel at ASA
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
7:30 - 8:45 am

Transfusion and the Critical Risk/Benefit Inflection in Cardiac Patients
Bruce D. Spiess, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Medical College of Virginia

Monitoring the need for transfusion: intelligent use of laboratory testing
Linda Shore-Lesserson, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Alternative therapies to transfusion
C. David Mazer, MD
St. Michael's Hospital
Professor of Anesthesia
University of Toronto Tickets available from ASA

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Table of Contents:

• President's Message
  
  
• SCA Breakfast Panel At ASA
  
  
• SCA Fellow & Faculty Recruitment Reception at ASA
  
  
• Call for Nominations
  
  
• Literature Reviews
  
  
  • Determinants of maximal right ventricular function
    
    
  • Cognitive outcome after off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery - A randomized trial.
    
    
  • Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of patients with left atrial thrombus and sinus rhythm; experience in 20643 consecutive transesophageal echocardiographic examinations.
    
    
  • Pulmonary artery catheter: Does the problem lie in the users?
    
    
  • The Ross procedure is the procedure of choice for congenital aortic valve disease.
    
    
  • Pulmonary dead-space fraction as a risk factor for death in the acute respiratory distress syndrome.



• Collaboration with journals promotes integration between disciplines

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