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Ann Thorac Surg 2008;85:359. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.10.018
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Perfusion: Part of the Perioperative Blood Transfusion and Blood Conservation Management Team

Robert A. Baker, PhD CCP (Aust), Chair, Guideline Writing Subcommittee, ICEBPa, Timothy A. Dickinson, MS, Executive Committee, ICEBPb, Kenneth G. Shann, CCP, Executive Committee, ICEBPc, Donald S. Likosky, PhD, Chair, ICEBPd, Allison Bednarski Spiwak, MS, Member, ICEBPe

a Cardiac and Thoracic Surgical Unit, Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
b Hospital Clinical Services Group, Nashville, TN
c Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center, Bronx, NY
d Departments of Surgery, and Community & Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
e Division of Circulation Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

(Email: rob.baker@flinders.edu.au).

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To the Editor:

We read with interest the article from Ferraris and associates [1]. We congratulate the authors on the extraordinary achievement of synthesizing an enormous breadth of literature on the topic of blood management in the area of cardiac surgery. This work certainly has and will continue to have an important impact on the management of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. We, members of the International Consortium for Evidence-Based Perfusion (ICEBP), share general support for these guidelines; however, we highlight a concern about their development without the apparent involvement of perfusionists, important members of the multidisciplinary clinical team . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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