Publications by authors named "Charlotte Faust"
Whole-body perfusion improves intraoperative transfusions in neonatal aortic arch surgery.
Interdiscip Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
May 2023
Article Synopsis
- - Whole-body perfusion combines lower body perfusion and antegrade cerebral perfusion and is used in neonatal aortic arch surgery to improve outcomes, but its effect on blood transfusions was unexplored until now.
- - A study analyzed 65 infants who had aortic arch surgery, comparing those operated on with antegrade cerebral perfusion versus those with whole-body perfusion from 2014 to 2020, assessing various intraoperative parameters and transfusion requirements.
- - Results showed that the whole-body perfusion group received significantly lower volumes of red blood cells and plasma, indicating that this technique may reduce the need for blood product transfusions in these surgeries compared to the other method.
Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine whether whole-body perfusion (WBP) consisting of a combined antegrade cerebral perfusion (ACP) and lower body perfusion (LBP) improves the outcome after aortic arch reconstruction surgery in neonates compared with ACP.
Methods: Sixty-five consecutive patients under one year of age who underwent aortic arch reconstruction as the main procedure or as part of a more complex surgery from 2014-2020 in our center were included. The patients were separated into two groups, according to the perfusion strategy, either ACP (34 patients) as the control group or WBP (31 patients) as the intervention group.