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Percutaneous cardiopulmonary bypass for the treatment of hypothermic circulatory collapse
G W Laub1, D Banaszak, J Kupferschmid
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey 08015.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
Environmentally induced hypothermia has a very high mortality. Cardiopulmonary bypass affords the best chance of survival from hypothermia but can be time-consuming to institute. We have utilized percutaneous cardiopulmonary bypass with recently developed bypass catheters to resuscitate a patient with profound hypothermia complicated by circulatory collapse. Percutaneous cardiopulmonary bypass appears to be the treatment of choice for profound hypothermia.