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S Milo1, L C Blieden, H N Neufeld
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
Abstract:
Emergency cardiac surgery in children can be successfully carried out even when cardiopulmonary bypass is either not feasible or not available quickly enough. Hypothermia induced with ice-water bags, complete circulatory arrest, near-total body exsanguination, and rewarming with a heating blanket and heating lamps, were used twice successfully in the repair of a ruptured aneurysm of the ascending aorta.
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