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Left ventricular venting through the right subclavian artery access during peripheral extracorporeal life support
Sidney Chocron1, Andréa Perrotti, Camille Durst
1Department of Thoracic and Cardio-Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Jean Minjoz, Besançon, France. sidney.chocron@univ-fcomte.fr
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|March 23, 2013
Abstract:
The use of peripheral extracorporeal life support during refractory cardiac arrest sometimes exposes the patient to left ventricular dilatation requiring venting. We report here a simple technique for LV venting by a cannula inserted through right subclavian artery and positioned in the left ventricle.
