Echocardiographic comparison of the standard end-hole cannula, the Soft-Flow cannula, and the dispersion cannula during perfusion into the aortic arch

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1919-1923

  Grooters, Ronald K ^a,b   Ver Steeg, Dirk A ^a   Stewart, Martha J ^a   Thieman, Kent C ^a   Schneider, Robert F ^a  

^a IOWA METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Iowa Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISPERSION CANNULA; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SOFT FLOW CANNULA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0038650974     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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