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Peter Munk Cardiac Centre
Highlights
(Continued from Cielo Bingley, Perioperative
previous page) Blood Conservation Coordinator,
and Dr. Keyvan Karkouti, Peter
seemed unlikely at best.
Munk Cardiac Centre Innovation
“It might be tomorrow, or it Fund Recipient and Deputy
could be weeks from now,” Anaesthesiologist-in-Chief
he said at the time. at UHN. (Photo: PMCC)
Then, divine intervention
took hold.
“From the time that we
reactivated him onto the
transplant list, until the time Conserving blood best image quality. This new method
we found a donor match, it was Funded by PMCC’s “Dragon’s adapts to the body and has reduced
24 hours. That was unusual,” Den-style” Innovation Committee, radiation levels by 25%. This is in
said Dr. Yau, adding that the Dr. Keyvan Karkouti and his team’s addition to the 80% decrease in
mother and son were only blood conservation program has radiation exposure that Dr. Paul’s
three rooms apart in the ICU. reduced the use of blood in cardiac team instituted during the initial
The good fortune did not procedures by over 20%, and research phase.
end there. The Toronto Star’s coverage of the Truongs’ heart surgeries was read decreased the need for platelets and
and shared on Facebook. (Graphic: Facebook) plasma by over 40%. The initiative Surgery program broadened
Called in for ‘main event’ has been extended across UHN and The thoracoabdominal
Two days after Lien’s bypass may be adopted in other Canadian aneurysm program now offers
surgery, Dr. Yau was on a day Until the Truong case, the Centre, and the support we both endovascular and open
off when Jason’s transplant surgeon had never performed offer their families engenders health-care facilities.
procedure was set to take heart operations on two family a lot of trust,” said Dr. Yau. surgery options to patients with
place. But, as Jason’s mother members within three days of “You are the person they have Reduced radiation exposure a wide range of complex aortic
had hoped, he was on-call each other. entrusted their son, mother, Dr. Narinder Paul, PMCC’s Division problems. State-of-the-art care is
and able to perform the most “This was a particularly husband to. Not surprisingly, Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging, provided by cardiac and vascular
important procedure – ‘the unusual situation,” the surgeon if they are feeling good about along with his team, created and surgeons, anesthesiologists,
main event’, as the surgeon said. the kind of care that person validated a customized approach nurses, perfusionists and critical care
called it. is getting, that confidence to cardiac CT scan imaging that physicians. Ontario patients are now
Leader in quality care transfers on.” guarantees the lowest radiation being accepted for management by
“Everything went spectacularly “There is no question that
well with both of them,” the care provided for patients In this case, like mother, dose possible, while ensuring the our Aortic Centre of Excellence.
Dr. Yau said. at the Peter Munk Cardiac like son.
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Highlights
(Continued from Cielo Bingley, Perioperative
previous page) Blood Conservation Coordinator,
and Dr. Keyvan Karkouti, Peter
seemed unlikely at best.
Munk Cardiac Centre Innovation
“It might be tomorrow, or it Fund Recipient and Deputy
could be weeks from now,” Anaesthesiologist-in-Chief
he said at the time. at UHN. (Photo: PMCC)
Then, divine intervention
took hold.
“From the time that we
reactivated him onto the
transplant list, until the time Conserving blood best image quality. This new method
we found a donor match, it was Funded by PMCC’s “Dragon’s adapts to the body and has reduced
24 hours. That was unusual,” Den-style” Innovation Committee, radiation levels by 25%. This is in
said Dr. Yau, adding that the Dr. Keyvan Karkouti and his team’s addition to the 80% decrease in
mother and son were only blood conservation program has radiation exposure that Dr. Paul’s
three rooms apart in the ICU. reduced the use of blood in cardiac team instituted during the initial
The good fortune did not procedures by over 20%, and research phase.
end there. The Toronto Star’s coverage of the Truongs’ heart surgeries was read decreased the need for platelets and
and shared on Facebook. (Graphic: Facebook) plasma by over 40%. The initiative Surgery program broadened
Called in for ‘main event’ has been extended across UHN and The thoracoabdominal
Two days after Lien’s bypass may be adopted in other Canadian aneurysm program now offers
surgery, Dr. Yau was on a day Until the Truong case, the Centre, and the support we both endovascular and open
off when Jason’s transplant surgeon had never performed offer their families engenders health-care facilities.
procedure was set to take heart operations on two family a lot of trust,” said Dr. Yau. surgery options to patients with
place. But, as Jason’s mother members within three days of “You are the person they have Reduced radiation exposure a wide range of complex aortic
had hoped, he was on-call each other. entrusted their son, mother, Dr. Narinder Paul, PMCC’s Division problems. State-of-the-art care is
and able to perform the most “This was a particularly husband to. Not surprisingly, Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging, provided by cardiac and vascular
important procedure – ‘the unusual situation,” the surgeon if they are feeling good about along with his team, created and surgeons, anesthesiologists,
main event’, as the surgeon said. the kind of care that person validated a customized approach nurses, perfusionists and critical care
called it. is getting, that confidence to cardiac CT scan imaging that physicians. Ontario patients are now
Leader in quality care transfers on.” guarantees the lowest radiation being accepted for management by
“Everything went spectacularly “There is no question that
well with both of them,” the care provided for patients In this case, like mother, dose possible, while ensuring the our Aortic Centre of Excellence.
Dr. Yau said. at the Peter Munk Cardiac like son.
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