Myocardial protection during cardiac surgery aims to preserve myocardial function while providing a bloodless and motionless operating field to make surgery easier. Myocardial protection is achieved by decreasing the oxygen needs using hypothermia and producing electromechanical cardiac arrest using potassium infusion which allows surgery to be performed on a non-beating heart. The deleterious effects of hypothermia include dysfunction of enzymatic systems, development of acidosis, a decrease in tissue oxygen delivery, an increase in blood viscosity and a decrease in erythrocyte deformability. Ninety percent of the decrease in oxygen consumption is obtained by inducing electromechanical arrest and inducing hypothermia has little additional benefit. Maintenance of systemic and myocardial normothermia reduces problems and provides a more physiological approach for cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). The current results obtained using normothermic protection are very encouraging, and it is an easier inexpensive option. This review summarizes the current knowledge on the benefits of normothermia, based upon experimental and clinical studies.
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