Preserving lives is her biggest passion
Lizelle Oosthuysen is a trained perfusionist who works with Getinge’s cardiopulmonary solutions and one of her main tasks is to support and drive treatment with ECMO. She loves to be part of supporting lives and enabling more patients to return home. When South African Lizelle Oosthuysen joined Getinge about six years ago, she came with broad experience from practicing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) therapy and a job title that tends to be a bit unfamiliar for many; perfusionist. “A cardiovascular perfusionist, or simply, perfusionist, plays an important role