The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon
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Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · Jun 1985
Deep hypothermia with reduced flow rates for correction of ventricular septal defects in infants. An alternative approach.
In this presentation our experience of the correction of large ventricular septal defects (VSD) under deep hypothermia (DH) and reduced flow rates in infants is reported. Sixty patients with VSD and pulmonary hypertension were operated. The age of the patients varied from 1.5 to 12 months and body weight from 3.0 to 8.7 kg. ⋯ In the remaining 57 patients the cardiac index during the first 48 hours after operation was 2.5-4.2 l . min-1 . m-2. Patients were extubated between 18 and 44 hours after the operation. Deep hypothermia with reduced flow rates during intracardiac repair provides excellent myocardial protection and exposition in infants with VSD.