Subscription to our Members Area gives you access to the first continuously updated book in the Cardiovascular Perfusion field: Fundamentals of Extracorporeal Circulation. This book will provide you with new concepts and techniques, soon after they are reported. Chapters are periodically reviewed and updated as required to keep new information immediately available to you. Rather than buying a printed book (which will be outdated in a few months) you get always the current edition. Furthermore, the book is specifically oriented to the community of perfusionists.

Our Members Area also hosts several sections, such as: Case Studies, Tips & Tricks, FAQs, Multimedia, CV Diseases, Digest, Notebook, Forum and a Chat auditorium with several rooms. People needing to review the accumulated knowledge will find a special section: Perfusion Quizzes - containing 1,000 questions and starting a path to the next thousand. Members will also get another continuously updated e-book: "The Handbook of Cardiovascular Perfusion". a publication with many chapters devoted to the clinical aspects of cardiopulmonary technology and related sciences. Become a member of Perfusion Line and have a full exclusive website with two continuously updating books and access to 10 sections devoted to the cardiovascular sciences.

Please note that the full book is not posted in the website. Instead, it is being progressively posted, chapter by chapter. There are 11 chapters already available and some more chapters will be posted along the next few days. Chapters available:

Presentation & Disclaimer
Introduction & Preface
1. Extracorporeal Circulation. History and Development.
2. Introduction to Extracorporeal Circulation.
3. Intraoperative Myocardial Protection: Bases and Methods.
4. Response of the Human Body to Cardiopulmonary Bypass.
5. Cardiopulmonary Bypass Induced Systemic Inflammatory Response.
6. Adult Cardiopulmonary Bypass.
7. Bloodless Cardiac Surgery and Cardiopulmonary Bypass.
8. Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Bypass.
9. Cardiopulmonary Bypass for Neonates.
10. Ultrafiltration During Extracorporeal Circulation.
11. Circulatory Assistance - Intra-Aortic Balloon.
12.Prolonged Extracorporeal Respiratory Assistance (ECMO - ECLS).
13. Prolonged Cardiac Extracorporeal Assistance.
14. Total Artificial Heart.


The HANDBOOK OF CARDIOVASCULAR PERFUSION has the following chapters available:

Chapter 001 Introduction
Chapter 002 Preface
Chapter 031 Open Cardiac Surgery and Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Chapter 037 The Perfusionist and Perfusion Practice
Chapter 038 Cardiovascular Perfusion Timeline
Chapter 039 Hemostasis and Blood Coagulation
Chapter 040 Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Bypass Circuit
Chapter 041 Bloodless Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Infants of Low Body Weight
Chapter 042 Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion
Chapter 043 Anticoagulation with Hirudin for Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Chapter 044 Bivalirudin Anticoagulation for Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Chapter 045 Neurologic Events after DHCA in Neonates
Chapter 046 Crystalloid Cardioplegia for Neonatal Cardiac Surgery
Chapter 047 Fibrinolysis during Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Aprotinin and Tranexamic Acid.
Chapter 048 Blood Conservation during Adult Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Chapter 049 Adrenergic Receptors and Vasoactivity
Chapter 050 Normothermic Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Chapter 055 Prolonged Aortic Cross-Clamping in a Neonate
Chapter 056 Vasoactive Drugs for Pediatric Perfusion
Chapter 057 Dopamine - Clinical Pharmacology
Chapter 065 Cardiac Transplantation in Elderly Patients
Chapter 071 Deficiency of G-6-PD and Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Chapter 072 Guidelines for the use of Aprotinin during CPB
Chapter 075 Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Heparin, Platelets, and Fibrinolysis
Chapter 076 Recombinant Factor VII and Massive Post CPB Hemorrhage
Chapter 077 Pharmacological and Mechanical Support after the Norwood Procedure


We are proud to announce an excellent online educational opportunity in our site Perfusion Line. As a major addition to the continuing education program we enlarged the database feeding the section of online examinations. The database has now 1,000 unique ECC-related questions, which can be answered online as your choose, in groups from 5 to 50 questions. All questions are referenced and the tests are auto-graded. You get the results in less than 5 seconds. The results of each test are known only to you. A few other sections will certainly catch your interest. The Members Area is designed for both, the experienced and the newly graduated perfusionist.
The total number of pages with information on Cardiopulmonary Technology already available (all sections) is over 400 (letter size), and is uninterruptedly growing.