VCSQI-PG Areas of Interest Survey

AKI post-cardiac surgery

Staffing – allocation/assignment of staff for daily duties and on-call obligations

Post Covid – meeting ABCP requirements for clinical/professional activity

Professional meetings – a future without in-person CEU opportunity?

Stewardship of available funding, budgetary constraints and its impact on patient care, inventory best practices

pRBC usage on bypass, blood conservation practices/techniques

Del Nido usage – case selection, post-op considerations (AKI, Hct and blood product usage, etc.)

ECMO for Covid – case count, unique characteristics of this patient, outcomes, alterations in staffing/equipment allocation

Integration of perfusion EMR with hospital system records

Safe use of pump suckers

Use of quality metrics to measure individual perfusionist performance

TAVR staffing/readiness and the frequency of emergency conversion to CPB

Goal-Directed Perfusion

VCSQI-PG Areas of Interest