Department of Cardiac Surgery Archive — Page 3 of 7
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November 10, 2022
Study defines role of steroids in congenital heart disease surgery
Steroids are commonly given to infants during open-heart surgery to reduce inflammation, but whether the drugs significantly improve patient outcomes has not been settled — until now. -
September 29, 2022
Patient journeys from South Africa for lung transplant
Mervyn Joseph, who searched the world over for the best place to be considered for lung transplant, is thankful he found Vanderbilt University Medical Center. -
July 28, 2022
Patient doing well after complex vascular procedures
Marsha Eastridge had no clue she had heart problems until she was diagnosed in December 2021. Barely three weeks later, she was undergoing the first of two complex vascular procedures at Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute that would save her life. -
April 21, 2022
Shumway Lecture
Ashish Shah, MD, chair of Cardiac Surgery, Carmen Solórzano, MD, chair of Surgery, and Seth Karp, MD, chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences and director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, welcome Sara Shumway, MD, (second from left), prior to her delivering the 2022 Shumway Lecture in Transplantation at Vanderbilt. -
March 17, 2022
ECMO fellowship program provides lifesaving training
Vanderbilt's extracorporeal life support fellowship gives new doctors two years of hands-on experience with a lifesaving critical care tool, one that has only become more important during the COVID-19 pandemic. -
February 16, 2022
Multicenter team seeks to create at-home artificial lung system
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is part of a multi-institutional teem seeking to create an artificial lung system that patients with incurable lung disease can use at home. -
January 24, 2022
Donna Atherton and Karen Pinkard are nurses who have worked together for years. The day Karen’s heart stopped at work, Donna was there to save her life.
A lot of people worked to save her life and help her recover. Thanks to them, Karen Pinkard is back at work.