In a single, intense 24-hour period, pediatric heart surgeons at Columbia took on a surgical feat rarely performed—a split-domino heart transplant. It’s a surgery of cascading proportions where a donor's heart is transplanted into a child, and the healthy parts of that child’s explanted heart are used to save two additional lives.
Late in the summer of 2024, three children—a 10-year-old girl, John, and Teddy—were the first to receive a split-domino heart transplant in New York, each undergoing a different complex open-heart procedure in carefully orchestrated stages. Led by David Kalfa, MD, PhD, and Andrew Goldstone, MD, PhD, this timeline provides a glimpse into the choreography and precision that goes into a surgical operation comprised of three separate operations on three different children. https://t.co/zmUgs8ZPSc
Today, as Vice Chair for Education, he's helping build the same culture of mentorship, humanism, and lifelong learning that shaped his own career—and the next generation of anesthesiologists.
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After surviving a grueling ECMO run, patients don't necessarily go home the same. The prevalence of neurocognitive impairment is 38%, and functional impairment is 52%. 🎩 tip to the authors.
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Left Ventricular venting & brain injury in peripheral VA #ECMO
🔍 ELSO Registry > 13K adults on #ECLS for CS
🫀 LV venting 11%: 65.5% percutaneous microaxial flow pump, 29.9% IABP
🧠 LV venting associated w increased risk of ABI (HIBI, ischemic stroke, ICH)
🪦 similar mortality if LV vented/non: unmeasured benefit of LV venting?
🫀 no difference in ABI or mortality if IABP vs mAFP
@CritCareMed
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Continuous EEG findings on VA #ECMO in pediatrics
🪦 hospital mortality 43%, nonsurvivors: significantly lower pH + higher lactate prior to initiation
⚡️ seizures 20%, 7% status epilepticus
🧠 on first 24 h of ECMO, unfavorable background score + lack of cEEG variability/reactivity associated with mortality
Data demonstrate relationship between of evolving pre-ECMO impaired tissue oxygenation & neurophysiologic impairment on the run, measured by cEEG, with mortality.
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