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CARDIOVASCULAR ANESTHESIA

A Complication with the Use of a Centrifugal Pump During Thoraco-Abdominal Aortic Surgery

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada

Address correspondence and reprint requests to M. Kruger, MBChB, FRCA, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta Hospital, WMC 3B2.32, 8440-110 St., T6G 2B7, Edmonton, Canada. Address e-mail to marelise_k{at}hotmail.com

IMPLICATIONS: Centrifugal pumps used to enable atrio-femoral bypass may trigger a change in intra-cardiac shunt flow and increase the risk of morbidity and mortality.

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999