The pulsatile perfusion debate in cardiac surgery: answers from the microcirculation?

Marjolein P Hoefeijzers; Leontien H ter Horst; Nick Koning; Alexander B Vonk; Christa Boer; Paul W G Elbers

doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2014.07.025

The pulsatile perfusion debate in cardiac surgery: answers from the microcirculation?

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2015;29(3):761-7. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2014.07.025. Epub 2014 Dec 18.

Authors

Marjolein P Hoefeijzers¹, Leontien H ter Horst¹, Nick Koning², Alexander B Vonk³, Christa Boer², Paul W G Elbers⁴

Affiliations

¹ Intensive Care Medicine; Anesthesiology.
² Anesthesiology.
³ Cardiothoracic Surgery, Research Intensive Care VUmc (REVIVE), Institute for Cardiovascular Research (Icar-VU) VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Intensive Care Medicine. Electronic address: p.elbers@vumc.nl.

PMID: 25534761
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2014.07.025

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac surgery; cardiopulmonary bypass; microcirculation; orthogonal polarization spectral (OPS) imaging; pulsatile perfusion; side-stream dark field (SDF) imaging.

Publication types

Meta-Analysis
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods*
Humans
Microcirculation / physiology*
Pulsatile Flow / physiology*
Swine
Thoracic Surgery / trends*