Sunday, October 18, 2026 from 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. MDT at Salt Palace Convention Center - Ballroom J
Available for 1.50 hours of CPE creditActivity Number: 0217-0000-26-167-L01-PActivity Type: A Knowledge-Based ActivityThe Perioperative Care PRN Education and Research Committee will focus on Patient Blood Management (PBM) in Cardiac Surgery. PBM represents a ‘patient-centered, systemic, evidence-based approach to improve patient outcomes by managing and preserving a patient’s own blood, while promoting patient safety and empowerment’. This session will feature 3 speakers focused on proactive management of preoperative anemia and intraoperative strategies to minimize blood loss and unnecessary transfusions. Speakers will address key recommendations for effective use of anticoagulation and hemostatic pharmacotherapies and approaches to global coagulation monitoring across the adult cardiac surgery continuum. Additionally, clinical pharmacist roles and institutional strategies for stewarding blood products and pharmacotherapies will be discussed. Clinical pharmacists and pharmacy leaders involved in providing or supporting adult cardiac surgical care at the institutional level will find much value in this session.
Learning Objectives1. Define stewardship strategies of Patient Blood Management in the setting of adult cardiac surgery.
2. Review preoperative anemia screening, assessment, and optimization.
3. Explain intraprocedure heparin use, monitoring, and reversal in cardiac surgery.
4. Identify perioperative heparin resistance and heparin rebound phenomena and their management strategies.
5. Discuss evidence-based use and stewardship of hemostatic pharmacotherapies applicable to adult cardiac surgery (e.g., antifibrinolytics, factor products).
6. Outline goal-directed hemostatic resuscitation strategies and pharmacist roles after cardiac surgery.
 | | Moderator: | Sara J. Jordan Hyland, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCCCP | | OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, Department of Pharmacy | | View Biography |
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Chart the Course: The Patient Blood Management Paradigm and Preoperative Optimization in Cardiac Surgery2:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. | | Speaker: | Patrick M. Wieruszewski, Pharm.D., Masters in Research, FCCM, BCCCP | |
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy
Mayo Clinic | | View Biography |
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Keep It Flowing: Anticoagulation and Reversal in Adult Cardiac Surgery2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. | | Speaker: | Josh Roberts, Pharm.D., BCCP, BCPS | | Cardiology Pharmacist Specialist, UC Davis Health, Department of Pharmacy, Sacramento, California
Volunteer Clinical Professor of Pharmacy, UC San Francisco, School of Pharmacy, San Francisco, California
Volunteer Clinical Professor of Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Sacramento, California | | View Biography |
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Slow It Down: Hemostatic Strategies and Stewardship in Adult Cardiac Surgery3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. | | Speaker: | Davide N. Ventura, BCCCP |
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