The economics of rising health care costs continue to be in the forefront of national news, political debate, topics on college campuses, around office water coolers, and, foremost, on the minds of hospital managers. I've received more concerned calls from hospital administrators (specifically those who employee perfusionists as staff) in this second half of 2009, than in our company's 21 year history.  I'm hearing many of the same wants and needs being expressed, although each hospital certainly is unique in its approach to managing hospital-based perfusion programs. Hospitals want to know exactly what are the pros and cons to contracting their programs.  They're considering that maybe a better way exists than trying to put a band-aid on their in house program's backache, so to speak. 

There isn't a singular magic pill, but there are a few truths that, in general,
answer administrator queries and provide evidence that contracting is a worthwhile endeavor to consider.  Specifically, one of the advantages of using Trident's contract services is that, regardless of caseload size, the contractor is obligated to meet the need. 

Time Magazine, in its June 13, 1938, issue, featured a story about Dr. Alexis Carrel and his budding friendship with Aviator Charles Lindbergh, which led to a historical scientific partnership in perfusion methods (used to keep organs alive outside the body during surgery).  That article, shown in its entire context here, characterized the pair's meeting:  both were introduced by the anesthetist who tended to Lindbergh's wife during the birth of their first born child.  Charles Lindbergh was fascinated to learn of Carrel's research into perfusion and offered some ideas where Carrel's work had reached a stopping point.  Although he tried and failed for four years to come up with something that worked, Lindbergh eventually provided Carrel a solution that was the needed break-through.  Time's cover picture showed the device that Lindbergh invented that served as a heart pump.  It was clear glass with three chambers.  The article described this early technology as follows:

 

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