Pulsatile flow decreases gaseous micro-bubble filtering properties of oxygenators without integrated arterial filters during cardiopulmonary bypass
Author(s) -
Aldo Milano,
Mikhail Dodonov,
Francesco Onorati,
Tiziano Me,
Leonardo Gottin,
Giovanni Malerba,
Alessandro Mazzucco,
Giuseppe Faggian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1569-9293
pISSN - 1569-9285
DOI - 10.1093/icvts/ivt264
Subject(s) - pulsatile flow , medicine , cardiopulmonary bypass , cardiology , oxygenator , bubble , anesthesia , mechanics , physics
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has a risk of embolic injury with an important role of gaseous micro-bubbles (GMBs), coming from CPB-circuit. Pulsatile perfusion (PP) can provide specific conditions for supplementary GMB-activity with respect to non-pulsatile (NP). We aimed to test GMB-filtering properties of three modern oxygenators under pulsatile and non-pulsatile conditions.
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