u/johnsmith22234

Something I’ve been thinking about is the long-term growth of traditional cardiac surgery/CPB. Obviously there are still a lot of CPB cases, but I’m wondering how much we can realistically expect that volume to grow over the next 20–30 years given the continued development of PCI, TAVR, etc. It seems like one of the biggest opportunities for perfusion could be expanding into areas outside of traditional cardiac cpb cases, such as NRP/ex-vivo. What other areas do you think have the potential to significantly expand the perfusion profession over the next 10–20 years, and is there a way to lobby to protect these areas to be restricted to solely perfusionists?