*Perfusionist
**Senior Perfusionist
***Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
****Consultant Anaestheiologist
*****Professor & Head CTVS
Department of Perfusion Technology, CTVS, CT Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Online published on 7 August, 2012.
Blood cardioplegia has emerged as the preferred cardio protective strategy, since its invention by Dr. Gerald D. Buckberg. Beside, classic ‘standard technique’ of blood cardioplegia delivery, several modifications have evolved and are used in different centres. Author describes an alternative cardioplegia circuit designed to deliver blood cardioplegia in the ratio of 1:4 (blood: crystalloid).
Blood cardioplegia, circuit, technique, myocardial protection
