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Prevention of secondary hemorrhage in Hanuman syndrome (open mediastinal drainage)
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Carolinas Medical Center, and the Neineman Laboratory for Medical Research, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
|February 14, 1998
Abstract:
The author describes three common mechanisms of hemorrhage which may occur following "open management" of sterno-mediastinitis after cardiac surgery. Recommendations for prevention and treatment are presented including the suggestion that whenever sterno-mediastinitis is treated by the open method in the initial stage of management, the patient should be paralyzed and maintained on artificial respiration.