BLOOD CHEMICAL CHANGES IN PERFUSION HYPOTHERMIA FOR CARDIAC SURGERY

[Hypothermia in cardiac surgery].

induced moderate hypothermia for low cardiac output after pediatric cardiac surgery

postoperative low cardiac output states are a major cause of postoperative mortality in infants and children following corrective cardiac surgery or congenital heart defects. whole body hypothermia has been used since 2001 in the management of these low output states when they are refractory to conventional modes of therapy. from december 2001 to april 2006, 25 cases were included in this study...

The use of hypothermia in cardiac surgery.

Because hypothermia slows the metabolic processes of the body, oxygen consumption and circulatory energy are reduced. This niodalityzheref ore, suggested itself as I)eing of potential value in the operative therapy of heart disease. Indeed, the possibility of this technique as a method for open intra-cardiac operation under direct vision during total circulatory occlusion was the stimulus which...

Open Cardiac Surgery during Profound Hypothermia

On Tuesday, 31st January 1961, I was privileged to assist at an operation performed y Mr. Ronald Belsey at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, for closure of an atrial septal e?t (A.S.D.) under profound hypothermia. This was the first case to be allotted 0 a student dresser, although the sixth one in the profound hypothermia series in r^stol, and an account of it may be of both topical and historical ...

Experimental hypothermia; respiratory and blood pH changes in relation to cardiac function.

PT' EMPORARY whole-body hypothermia in theory offers an ideal way of greatly 1, reducing metabolism, and seems to hold great promise in clinical surgery. Yet, although the reptile or the hibernating mammal can withstand very low body temperatures without distress, body temperatures much below 28°C produce severe and often fatal physiological stress in the non-hibernating mammal. In the course o...