Cardiopulmonary bypass via common carotid artery cannulation in redo sternotomy

<p>Abstract</p> <p>There are certain situations in redo cardiac surgery in adults where it may not be possible to use alternate arterial cannulation sites like the common femoral artery and axillary artery. We report a case where we established safe cardiopulmonary bypass with comm...

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Main Authors: Hassan Asif, Vohra Hunaid A, Bhudia Sunil K, Abid Qamar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-07-01
Series:Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Online Access:http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/2/1/31