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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007;31:756. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.01.009
Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Letters to the Editor

Normal temperature and flow: are the ‘physiological’ values so scary?

Antonio F. Corno*

Alder Hey Royal Children Hospital, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK

Received 5 December 2006; accepted 8 January 2007.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 151 2525713; fax: +44 151 2525643. (Email: Antonio.Corno@rlc.nhs.uk).

Key Words: Cardiopulmonary bypass • Congenital heart disease • Pediatric • Perfusion • Surgery

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Pouard et al. [1] confirmed the feasibility of normothermic arterial switch, but the Editorial suggested ‘great circumspection’ [2].

Normothermia in pediatric cardiac surgery, used by Lecompte from 1995 [3,4], is not the only characteristic of normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) [1]: other factors need to be considered: flow and hematocrit [4].

(a) Flow. The flow generally used for CPB is 2.0–2.4 L/min/m2, far from the ‘physiologic’ values of 3.5–5.0 L/min/m2. The flow is then reduced during the operation to low flow or circulatory arrest. The damages induced by flow reduction (metabolic, endothelial, neurological, myocardial, hematological, vascular, and respiratory derangements) . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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