Table 1.
Demographic Characteristics of the Survey Sample (n=284)
| Specialty | |
| Anesthesiologist | 159 (56%) |
| Perfusionist | 86 (30.3%) |
| Cardiac Surgeon | 39 (13.7%) |
| Type of hospital setting | |
| Metropolitan Public Hospital | 183 (64.4%) |
| Metropolitan Private Hospital | 59 (20.8%) |
| Regional Public Hospital | 27 (9.5%) |
| Regional Private Hospital | 15 (5.3%) |
| Heart/Lung Transplant service | |
| Yes | 60 (21.1%) |
| No | 224 (78.9%) |
| ECMO and/or VAD | |
| Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) | 165 (58%) |
| Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) | 2 (0.7%) |
| Both | 72 (25.4%) |
| Participating State the answers refer to | |
| New South Wales | 113 (39.8%) |
| Victoria | 73 (25.7%) |
| Queensland | 58 (20.4%) |
| Western Australia | 20 (7%) |
| South Australia | 17 (6%) |
| Tasmania | 3 (1.1%) |