[Method of increasing the effectiveness of veno-arterial perfusion]

Under study was the efficacy of heart unloading in different variants of asynchronous peripheral veno-arterial perfusion (VAP). In 12 experiments VAP was accomplished in association with the left ventricle decompression. Due to the latter, complete or nearly complete exsanguination of the left ventricle was gained in 11 experiments. In fibrillation of caridac ventricles no lung edema was noted in these cases. The elaborated technic was successfully employed twice in animals being in the state of "cardiogenic shock", induced by myocardiac infarction lasting for a day.