The European Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion adopts Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery as its official publication

Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS) is pleased to announce that the European Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion (EBCP) has adopted ICVTS (www.icvts.org) as its official publication. The EBCP (www.ebcp.org) was founded in 1991 in order to unite the European perfusionists in their desire for equality of standards in both training and professional status, goals which were strongly supported from the very beginning by the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (www.eacts.org) and the European Society for Cardio-Vascular Surgery (www.escvs.org), organizations who also support ICVTS. Perfusion is certainly key to many procedures in the field of thoracic and cardio-vascular surgery and, therefore, it comes as no surprise that perfusion also plays a prominent role in ICVTS. A quick look at the table of contents of ICVTS (search term «CPB» in «2010» as per February 15) brings up 37 references for the first six weeks of the year out of which the most recent ones include topics like perfusion temperature [1], optimal hemoglobin levels during perfusion [2], closed perfusion systems [3], myocardial protection strategies [4, 5], anticoagulation strategies for perfusion [6, 7], fetal protection during perfusion [8], cannulation techniques for perfusion [9], and hemoglobinopathies in perfusion [10] etc. There can be no doubt, that perfusion is evolving constantly and therefore, additional expertise in the field of perfusion is of prime importance for the communication on its development: –ICVTS has been an open access publication since its inception –ICVTS is available free anywhere at any time –ICVTS provides a forum for discussion for all new contributions –ICVTS invites submissions related to perfusion Perfusionists of all countries, unite at www.icvts.org, and send your contributions/comments now.