Perfusionist explains the heart-lung machine for cardiac surgery

Outstanding video!

Love your videos Max, I’m a certified perfusionist here in Brazil 🇧🇷. Thank you for showing a little bit of love to this awesome job in healthcare. 👏🏼👏🏼

This video is great. I learned so much in the past 10 minutes. I had no idea this was a whole study in and of itself. Now I have a few questions. 1 Do not need to be a full board certified doctor for this?? Did I hear him right? Only a masters degree is needed?

2 who actually insert the canula into the patient him or the surgeon?


3 How in the world do you clean and sanitize that machine. I am guessing most of the tubing is discarded, but still, the machine still needs to be cleaned. That is a the video itself.

Sooooo good

Really appreciate you taking the time to make this very informative video!

So ECMO is nothing like ECTO, as in Ecto-Cooler.

Perfusionist do a lot. The first day I heard of this career I was amazed. The whole team in the OR are incredible in ensuring the safety of the patient.

So you have 4 years of Med School, and 3-4 years of Anesthesia residency with Board Certification soon to come (if not already). But the Perfusionist, with a 2 year masters degree, has control of the Anesthesia and Oxygen knobs on the equipment. I'm not belittling his ability or training, but what am I missing?

What a smart and handsome perfusionist! Is he single? 😉🖤 great video guys!

Fantastic video. This machine is so hi tech compared to the machines I worked with 30 years ago !

Good job Max & Caleb!! Proud to work with you both.

i want to apply to perfusionist school :))

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Great video!!

I did a co-op in 1191 with Pfizer in Irvine where I worked on process validations for the cardiopulmonary product line. Cardiotomy reservoirs, and the Plexus hollow fiber oxygenator which was fairly new tech at the time. Most oxygenators on the market were membrane designs.

What about keeping blood flowing through the lungs?

I just got my acceptance letter into a perfusion program last week!😭I’m scared as h3ll lol but very excited to enter this field✨

that looks similar to hemodialysis machines. i think those are fascinating.

Kuddos to people in this field because i couldn't do this!

Thank you for doing this video! I am going to Respiratory Therapy school, and then hopefully one day, I can get my master's in cardiovascular perfusion.

Risk of dementia from extracoporeal pumping these days?

How do you clean the machine?

Always a pleasure to learn from you. Ive been teh patient that was absolutely helpless and my life was in the hands of the clinicians. As was said, its a job, but for the recipient its a life changing event.

Im a medical equipment planner. Very helpful video. I know the equipment but I don’t know how it works all of the time.

How is all this cleaned after use?

Such a complicated mechanism put together in a way everybody can understand. Just phenomenal!

Be interesting to hear your views on 'pumphead' or Postperfusion syndrome.

Wow! This guy is well trained and very knowledgeable. Thank you for all that you do the help save lives. Amazing!!

Give this man his money ASAP

In 1990 I went to work, in Germany, performing field service on Stöckert HLMs - I still have coffee cups from the S3 launch but actually started while both CAPS and the initial release version was still in the market.
I was amazed to see how recognizable some of the equipment still is; the peristaltic pump heads, level and bubble detectors, heater/cooler, as well as the general shape and form of the machine is the same, colors and controls have obviously changed and improved.
Sorry about those hand crank things though. My version only went into one roller, glad to see they are at least using two pins now.
Definitely some very excellent machining and engineering in those machines.

Strangely enough, I also recognize the disposables manufacturer because I am now employed by them. My role for a very long time has been in the cath lab but we have recently transitioned/ are transitioning to training on the cell savers and ACT machines.

Fun stuff and thanks for the video and memories!

Great video Max! Thank you 🎉

Such an informative video! What a knowledgeable Perfusionist as well Bravo brother!

This makes me want to go back to school for perfusion

Hello bro thanks this video

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Interesting !

Outstanding!

Really ? Simple? What if you will be the patient.

Having had heart surgery three months ago for a triple bypass and I'm now working doing the same thing I did before but feeling better doing it is a testimony to the surgical team and caregivers who worked on me. I'm 71yrs old, travel all the US and Canada as a field engineer who commissions equipment at water treatment facilities and find work to be very physical at times is a testimony. A big "THANK YOU" to the HEROS.

Is this the same as ECMO?

I’m going in for robotic bypass in 4 weeks, I’m pretty freaked out 😳

Thank you for the excellent video! I have a question that only a perfusionist can answer: How do you feel working as a perfusionist?

Don't hook me to this macine. I have no insurance.

Good tutorial.

I call this the heaven jump because people die and come back

This was really inciteful to someone who got a heart transplant at 9 days old back in 1995. I was wondering what kind of redundancies are in place incase of failure of one of the pumps, good idea covering that but what happens during the failover event? Just a brief 30 second stop in flow while the manual pump is put in place? What kind of maintenance is given to this kind of machine since it has so many moving parts? How is this machine cleaned as well? Maybe some topics for a future video! Thanks Max!

This is much harder than going to the moon.

This is a fantastic video, Quinnipiac trains excellent providers.

Simply thank you!