Conducting CABG without a
heart-lung machine can reduce the incidence of these problems, but at a price: Some studies have reported that within five years after CABG, patients who undergo off-pump surgery are more likely to die or need another revascularization procedure than patients who have CABG with a
heart-lung machine.
But the
heart-lung machine carries a small risk of complications, including stroke.
It also said there is ''no causal link between the defendant's operation of the artificial
heart-lung machine and the death,'' dismissing the prosecutors' appeal of the 2005 Tokyo District Court decision that cleared Sato.
When assisting in a scheduled open heart surgery, Holt comes in to the hospital at 6 a.m., collects all the components of the
heart-lung machine, assembles them aseptically, and makes sure the equipment works perfectly.
A second feature of
heart-lung machines is their ability to cool the body and reduce its need (especially the brain's need) for oxygen.
Francis Medical Center in Honolulu reported at the Asia Pacific Scientific Forum, April 23-26, 2002, that patients did better on four cognitive tests after off-pump CABG surgery than patients who were put on a
heart-lung machine.
In the second technique, called hemocon-centration, the child's blood, which normally would be left behind in the
heart-lung machine, is retrieved.
Dr Yahya added that the team of anaesthesiologists ensured the patient is smoothly taken off the
heart-lung machine and to stabilise the patient so that the surgery can be completed in minimal time ensuring patient safety and minimal drug support.
As we revealed yesterday, doctors at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, kept her alive on a
heart-lung machine then fitted a Berlin heart- an external blood pump.
KARACHI -- Mohammad Ahmed Baloch, a forty-day-old baby from Dera Allah Yar, Balochistan has became the first patient in the country to survive on an artificial
heart-lung machine at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH).
Patients may be classified as high risk for surgery if they are especially frail or have other medical conditions that would put them at great risk if they were on a
heart-lung machine. Aortic valve replacement treats severe aortic stenosis, a condition in which the valve restricts blood flow into the body's largest artery.
"We hoped the ventilator would allow us to get him well enough that he wouldn't need to be put on a
heart-lung machine," he added.