{"id":6132,"date":"2021-05-03T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2021-05-03T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:02:13","slug":"happy-perfusion-appreciation-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2021\/05\/03\/happy-perfusion-appreciation-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Perfusion Appreciation Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><em>by David W. Holt, MA, CCT, program director of Clinical Perfusion Education<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week is\u00a0celebrated as\u00a0<strong>Perfusion Appreciation Week,\u00a0<\/strong>recognizing perfusionists globally in the normal practice of patient support in open-heart surgery, blood management in orthopedic, vascular, oncological, and OB-GYN practices, and recently who have played an important role on the front lines of the pandemic by providing extracorporeal pulmonary support to some of the most critically ill patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week was chosen because on May 3rd, 1953, the very first patient had a hole in her heart (atrial septal defect) repaired using a heart-lung machine by Dr. John Gibbon at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please congratulate this very unique health-care worker next time you see one for a job well done!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4vvujW_MiSU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video of Scott Sanderson<\/a>, MPS, CCP, LP, our Clinical Education Coordinator with more about perfusion.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David W. Holt, MA, CCT, program director of Clinical Perfusion Education This week is\u00a0celebrated as\u00a0Perfusion Appreciation Week,\u00a0recognizing perfusionists globally in the normal practice of patient support in open-heart surgery, blood management in orthopedic, vascular, oncological, and OB-GYN practices, and recently who have played an important role on the front lines of the pandemic by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":6134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,50,54,45,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clinical-perfusion","category-deans-office","category-education","category-frontpage","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}