Is There an Upper Limit to Cardiopulmonary Bypass Times?

• Main Authors: Saad Rustum (Author), Felix Fleissner (Author), Erik Beckmann (Author), Fabio Ius (Author), Mathias Wilhelmi (Author), Serghei Cebotari (Author), Axel Haverich (Author), Issam Ismail (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Annals of Circulation - Peertechz Publications, 2017-02-06.
• Assuntos: Research Article
• Acesso em linha: Connect to this object online.

<p><strong>Background: </strong>There are no safe operations in cardiac surgery. Every operation can possibly go wrong. We therefore retrospectively evaluated all cardiac operations lasting more than 300 minutes of bypass time at our institution to evaluate outcome and factors rele...