Patient screening

12/24/2009
In the last week we have had exciting events:1. We had the return of our screening team from Rwanda - Dr. Bishop, his wife, Don (echo technician) and Phil (Medtronic representative) were all in Rwanda for about 10 days to see patients, perform echocardiograms, and assist in pacemaker implantation. Dr. Bishop saw over 100 patients and we have at least 35 potential candidates for surgery, of whom probably 25 excellent candidates. Don set a record of 27 echoes in a day!In the first week of January, over the course of probably 3 meetings we will review the cases to select the 14 patients for surgery and 5 alternates.Thank you to the screening team who worked tirelessly and traveled hours to accomplish this.2. We had a blast at the Smashing Tarts for Open Hearts - Roller Derby last week at Patterson’s.Those ladies can skate and dish out a mean elbow!They raised $1500 for us !!!! Thank you to Jason for organizing that and to the Roller Derby ladies who donated the funds.