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A New Internal Cardiac Massage Technique
Author(s) -
Kuralay Erkan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2008.00603.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ascending aorta , blood pressure , diastole , massage , thumb , cardiology , perfusion , aorta , anesthesia , surgery , alternative medicine , pathology
Classical internal cardiac massage mostly can increas systolic blood pressure to maintain sufficient brain and systemic organ perfusion but diastolic blood pressure commonly remains below 10 mmHg. To be able to increase the diastolic blood pressure sufficiently, the surgeon grabs the distal part of the ascending aorta between the thumb and index finger of the left hand and squeezes it during the diastolic time period to increase the diastolic pressure. Ascending aorta is released during ventricular squeezing, and subsequently ascending aorta is squeezed during the ventricular relaxation.