Antioxidant defence during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery

Emergent Cardiopulmonary Bypass during Cardiac Surgery.

During orientation to the cardiac surgery operating room, new staff may not be exposed to emergent situations. Allowing team members the opportunity to practice their roles during less common, high-stakes emergency cardiac surgical scenarios may better prepare them when crises do arise in the OR. The Emergency Cardiopulmonary Bypass Course was developed to meet the needs of new staff starting i...

Coronary surgery without cardiopulmonary bypass.

Leukocyte depletion during cardiopulmonary bypass in routine adult cardiac surgery.

OBJECTIVES Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) elicits an inflammatory response which is potentially harmful and that is partly caused by activation of leukocytes. Despite promise from earlier studies, however, the value of intraoperative leukocyte-depletion (LD) remains equivocal. We studied the effect of LD during routine cardiac surgery. METHODS For a short period (2.5 months), all operations at ...

SjO2/SvO2 correlation during pediatric cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.

OBJECTIVES To compare the SjO2 (cerebral oxygenation indicator) and SvO2 (cardiac output indicator) during pediatric cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). METHODS Retrospective study. Data of SjO2 and SvO2 measured simultaneously at critical time periods during cardiac surgery with CPB were analyzed by the Spearman correlation test and Bland- Altman plot. RESULTS Regression ana...

Neuroprotective Strategies during Cardiac Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Aortocoronary bypass or valve surgery usually require cardiac arrest using cardioplegic solutions. Although, in principle, in a number of cases beating heart surgery (so-called off-pump technique) is possible, aortic or valve surgery or correction of congenital heart diseases mostly require cardiopulmonary arrest. During this condition, the heart-lung machine also named cardiopulmonary bypass (...