Extracorporeal bubbles: A word of caution

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 995-1001

  de Somer, Filip M J J ^a   Vetrano, Maria R ^b   van Beeck, Jeroen P A J ^b   van Nooten, Guido J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b Von Karman Institute for Fluids Dynamics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary bypass; Gaseous microemboli

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACKLIGHT SHADOWGRAPHY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD PUMP; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLI DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION QUANTIFIER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBUBBLE; OPTICAL COUNTING; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; EMBOLISM, AIR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROBUBBLES; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 77954560072     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.229088     Document Type: Article

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