Intracardiac air following cardiotomy. Location, causative factors, and a method for removal.
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This article is published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.The article was published on 1971-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cardiotomy & Intracardiac injection.read more
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Prevention of neurological damage during open-heart surgery.
TL;DR: It is concluded that the prophylactic measures introduced to eliminate or minimize hazards from the onset of cardiopulmonary bypass have been responsible for the reduction in the incidence of neurological damage.
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Adverse effects on the brain in cardiac operations as assessed by biochemical, psychometric, and radiologic methods.
Torkel Aberg,Gunnar Ronquist,Hans Tyden,Siw Brunnkvist,Jan Hultman,Kjell Bergstrom,Anders Lilja +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that subclinical brain injury is often seen after cardiac operations, most often the injury appears trivial and/or reversible, but in a minority of cases there is evidence that the head injury is irreversible.
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Retained intracardiac air. Transesophageal echocardiography for definition of incidence and monitoring removal by improved techniques.
TL;DR: M-mode transesophageal echocardiography of the left atrium, left ventricle, and aorta is a highly sensitive method for detecting retained intracardiac air bubbles and appears to have eliminated significant retained air and its consequences after cardiopulmonary bypass.
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Ultrasonic identification of sources of gaseous microemboli during open heart surgery
E. G. Gallagher,D. T. Pearson +1 more
TL;DR: An ultrasonic transducer was used to detect gaseous microemboli during open heart surgery and demonstrated that the two types of disposable bubble oxygenators and disc oxygenators tested delivered microbubbles in the arterial blood.
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Intraoperative 2-dimensional echocardiography: Ejection of microbubbles from the left ventricle after cardiac surgery
TL;DR: 2-dimensional echocardiography is useful for detection of intracardiac microbubbles and therefore may be instrumental in their elimination and, although no patient in this study showed evidence of gross neurologic dysfunction, the possibility of subclinical organ damage exists.
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Coronary and other air embolization occurring during open cardiac surgery; prevention by the use of gaseous carbon dioxide.
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Photographic analysis of the active and passive components of cardiac valvular action.
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A needle-vent safeguard against systemic air embolus in open-heart surgery.
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The use of a vent for the left ventricle as a means of avoiding air embolism to the systemic circulation during open cardiotomy with the maintenance of the cardiorespiratory function of animals by a pump oxygenator.
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