Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and other Non-CPB Protocols a perfusionist can involve

Advent of Heart Lung Machine and the innovations in CPB variegated the concept of Cardio-thoracic into Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery. Many veteran surgeons continued to practise both the specialties either on academic interest or limited number of cardiac cases admitted in a general hospital or even some medical college hospitals having a few hundreds of cases per annum. Perfusionist also may take care of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump in the post-operative period. Ultrafiltration continued after the termination of CPB was a turning point in clinical involvement.