Case Report

Experience With Deep Hypothermia and Elective Circulatory Arrest for Cardiac Surgery in Infants

Authors: THOMAS B. CALDWELL III MD, JOSEPH N. BLUNK MD, ALFONSO ESCOBAR MD

Abstract

During hypothermic circulatory arrest (19 C nasal) averaging 55 minutes in 25 infants, the mean increase in base deficit was only −3.95 mEq/liter, when arterial gases before circulatory arrest were compared with samples ten minutes after perfusion had been resumed. Few significant arrhythmias occurred, and all survivors appeared neurologically normal at discharge.

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