Positive mental health, depression and burnout in healthcare workers during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic.

Unlabelled: WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: In the past 2 years, the COVID-19 pandemic had a robust negative impact on the mental health of healthcare providers, with increasing rates of depression, anxiety, acute stress and burnout. Healthcare workers experiencing poor mental health are reluctant to seek help and treatment because they are afraid of being stigmatized and excluded by their colleagues and employers. During the pandemic positive emotions, resilience and psychological well-being buffered distress and burnout in healthcare workers.

Thoracoabdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion Using Mobile Closed Extracorporeal Circuit in Circulatory Death Determination Heart Donors.

Thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion (TA-NRP) is increasingly implemented in donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD). Thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion allows thoracic and abdominal organs to be perfused with warm, oxygenated blood after declaration of death, interrupting ischemia. Evidence is accumulating supporting the use of TA-NRP to improve the outcome of grafts from DCD donors.

Transesophageal Echocardiography Guidance to Prevent and Manage Pitfalls from Abdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion and Optimize Timing during Organ Retrieval from a Donor after Circulatory Death.

An essential means of collecting more abdominal donor organs is controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD). The organs are typically preserved during cDCD using the abdominal normothermic regional perfusion (A-NRP) technique to recirculate oxygenated blood flow following cardiac arrest and the withdrawal of life support. One of the challenges of A-NRP is ensuring the correct vascular devices' positionings, specifically extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannulae and aortic balloons, typically achieved through fluoroscopy with or without contrast agents.