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19181751

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-2-2
pubmed:abstractText
Various methods of cardioplegia administration have been used in cardiac surgery: crystalloid, blood and mixed crystalloid/blood. Each of these types of cardioplegia administration typically needs a different circuit. This may correspond to an increase in cost and the time needed to change the circuit if required. When various modifications are performed on the circuit, this also increases the risk of contamination. In order to simplify the management of differing cardioplegia circuits, we devised one circuit for all solutions in all situations by adding one modification. The ReVerse cardioplegia circuit system is a description of a two-pump cardioplegia circuit which is adaptable to either blood or crystalloid cardioplegia. The change from one mode to another requires a manoeuvre of two clamps, allowing the blood solution to travel through shunt tubing into the apposite pumphead. In our experience the versatility of this circuit is a fast, safe method to administrate all types of cardioplegia solution, saving the space taken up by storing multiple circuits.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0267-6591
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
205-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
A cardioplegia circuit with versatility: the 'ReVerse' system. How to do it.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Perfusion, San Raffaele Vita e Salute University Hospital, Milan, Italy. colangelo.nicola@hsr.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article