Hypothermia and exsanguination in emergency cardiovascular surgery in children.
Emergency cardiac surgery in children can be successfully carried out even when cardiopulmonary bypass is either not feasible or not available quickly enough. Hypothermia induced with ice-water bags, complete circulatory arrest, near-total body exsanguination, and rewarming with a heating blanket and heating lamps, were used twice successfully in the repair of a ruptured aneurysm of the ascending aorta.
Milo
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Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
Blieden
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Neufeld
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Goor
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D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000601:surgery*; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006324:Heart Arrest, Induced; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced; D007223:Infant