Saved life experience by assisted circulation for extracorporeal circulation weaning difficulty.

Tracheal Chondrosarcoma Excised With Extracorporeal Circulation

Introduction: Tracheal chondrosarcoma (TCS) is a rare malignancy, with only 19 cases described in the literature to date. Case presentation: Herein, we presented the third-largest TCS with such an airway compromise that neither orotracheal intubation nor jet ventilation or even tracheostomy was possible. So, extracorporeal circulation was needed to excise the tumor in a one-stage procedure. Th...

Prolonged extracorporeal circulation.

Interest in prolonged perfusions has increased pari passu with the possibility of treating the more complicated cardiac deformities. Prolonged perfusions may be of interest also in functional disturbances arising during operations using the heart-lung machine, since it may be difficult to discontinue the perfusion before cardiac function is again satisfactory. Furthermore, the biological change...

Miniaturized Extracorporeal Circulation

Assisted Circulation

A NUMBER of methods utilizing extracorporeal devices to assist the circulation have been described and tested experimentally during the past five years.'-' The two categories into which these methods may be divided are synchronous and asynchronous assistance. Both of these approaches attempt to relieve the work of the heart and to provide an adequate arterial perfusion pressure. Asynchronous pa...

Non-extracorporeal circulation for coronary artery bypass graft surgery is more beneficial than extracorporeal circulation.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery with non-extracorporeal vs. extracorporeal circulation. The study outcomes included operative time, number of graft vessels, pulmonary infection rates, and systemic inflammatory markers. PATIENTS AND METHODS 96 patients received selective CABG, either with non-extracorporeal (study group; n = 48) ...