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A complication with the use of a centrifugal pump during thoraco-abdominal aortic surgery
Marelise Kruger1, Richard Bergstrom, Barry A Finegan
1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada. mare_k@hotmail.com
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|September 28, 2002
Abstract
Implications:
Centrifugal pumps used to enable atrio-femoral bypass may trigger a change in intra-cardiac shunt flow and increase the risk of morbidity and mortality.