Intermittent hypothermic cardioplegia has been adopted as the method of choice for myocardial protection by most surgeons. The most important aspect of this protection is believed to be adequate hypothermia. An alternative technique has been developed, based on the principles of electromechanical arrest and normothermic aerobic perfusion using continuous warm blood cardioplegia. With this method of myocardial protection the heart is maintained at 37°C throughout the operative procedure. The specific technical aspects used shall be described in detail.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Number of pages||8|
|Journal||Journal of cardiac surgery|
|State||Published - Jun 1991|
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine