Carbon dioxide field flooding versus mechanical de-airing during open-heart surgery: A prospective randomized controlled trial

Perfusion

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 291-294

  Kalpokas, Mario V ^a   Nixon, Ian K ^a   Kluger, Roman ^a   Beilby, David S ^a   Silbert, Brendan S ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AIR; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0242551688     PISSN: 02676591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0267659103pf671oa     Document Type: Article

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