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[Atrial pacing with the A-V paceport pulmonary artery catheter]
E Inada1, K Iwahashi, H Kashiwagi
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Teikyo Medical School, Tokyo.
Masui. the Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Atrial pacing is often necessary during cardiac surgery. A total of 20 patients undergoing cardiac surgery were atrially paced with either a multipurpose pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) or an A-V paceport PAC (n = 10 each). Atrial pacing was successful in all the patients before cardiopulmonary bypass. The output threshold was 4.2 +/- 0.7 mA for a multipurpose PAC and 3.8 +/- 0.7 mA for A-V paceport PAC. Atrial pacing with both PAC's was readily performed and useful during cardiac surgery.