Background: There are no safe operations in cardiac surgery. Every operation can possibly go wrong. We therefore retrospectively evaluated all cardiac operations lasting more than 300 minutes of bypass time at our institution to evaluate outcome and factors relevant for perioperative mortality and morbidity. .
2. Research Article
Is There an Upper Limit to
Cardiopulmonary Bypass Times?
Saad Rustum*, Felix Fleissner, Erik Beckmann, Fabio Ius,
Mathias Wilhelmi, Serghei Cebotari, Axel Haverich and Issam
Ismail
*Corresponding author: Saad Rustum, MD, CarlNeuberg Str.1,
30625 Hannover, Germany, Tel: +495115326589, Fax:
+495115325404;
Dates: Received: 20 January, 2017; Accepted: 03 February,
2017; Published: 06 February, 2017
Citation: Rustum S, Fleissner F, Beckmann E, Ius F, Wilhelmi M,
et al. (2017) Is There an Upper Limit to Cardiopulmonary
Bypass Times?. Ann Circ 2(1): 003-007.
3. Abstract
Background: There are no safe operations in cardiac surgery. Every
operation can possibly go wrong. We therefore retrospectively
evaluated all cardiac operations lasting more than 300 minutes of
bypass time at our institution to evaluate outcome and factors
relevant for perioperative mortality and morbidity. Methods: We
retrospectively included patients receiving cardiac operations or
operations at the great vessels with cardiopulmonary bypass times
above 300 minutes operated from 1/1/1996 until 12/1/2012 in our
study. Patients receiving lung or heart or combined heart and lung
transplantations were excluded from our study. 240 patients were
included in our study. CPB times, clamp times and operation times
were 356.53 ± 55.06 min, 166.18± 65.95 min, 500.47± 96.56 min
respectively. Euro score of patients was 14.92 ± 15.35 (range 0.64-
79.48).
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