Anesthetic management of neonatal cardiac transplantation.
Anesthetic management of thirteen neonatal heart transplant patients is reviewed. Donor management, preoperative, operative and early postoperative management is discussed. Ten of 13 patients in this series survived the operation and appear to be developing normally.
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Loma Linda University Medical Center, CA.
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D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods; D006324:Heart Arrest, Induced; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn