Objective: Antibiotic prophylaxis is recommended in pediatric cardiac surgery, but no data concerning the current antibiotic regimen were available.
Design: Prospective study from April to June 2000.
Setting: University hospital operating room and postoperative intensive care unit.
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
June 1997
Objective: Whether intraoperative fluid infusion should contain glucose during pediatric cardiac surgery remains controversial. This study was performed to compare the effects of glucose and glucose-free solutions on blood glucose and blood insulin levels during total repair of congenital heart diseases.
Design: Prospective randomized and blinded study.
Background: The main advantage of pulsatile flow compared with steady flow during cardiopulmonary bypass is to prevent a rise in systemic vascular resistances. We hypothesized that pulsatile flow could overcome the progressive rise in peripheral and placental vascular resistances observed during fetal bypass and leading to progressive irreversible hypoxemia.
Methods And Results: A study was undertaken in 17 fetal lambs (110 to 140 days of gestation).
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol
November 1994
Noninvasive detection of acute cardiac allograft rejection remains a challenge. Analysis of the epicardial electrogram transmitted by unipolar telemetric pacemaker can be of help in the detection of rejection with myocytolysis but is hampered by extracardiac factors. Instead, the contribution of a bipolar pacemaker for this purpose was studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVentricular septal defect in infants induces peroperative fluid overload (particularly extravascular lung water overload) which causes some morbidity after surgical closure of the defect. Thirty infants undergoing the conventional complete correction procedure were retrospectively compared with 32 infants operated upon using ultrafiltration at the end of the cardiopulmonary bypass. There was no difference between the two groups in biological data, haemodynamic parameters and either morbidity or mortality.
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