Experience with Miniaturized Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Comparison of the NovoSCI Ready System to Off-Pump and Conventional Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52444#.VJjCicCAM4 Author(s) Dominic Emerson 1,2 , Debbie Baldwin 1* , Miguel Pinales 1 , Michael Greenberg 1 , Melissa Mattes 1 , Gregory Trachiotis 1,3 Affiliation(s) 1 Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA . 2 Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA . 3 The George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA . ABSTRACT The major source of morbidity following cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is the systemic inflammatory response (SIRS response) which leads to multiple derangements in different organ systems. To combat this, miniaturized cardiopulmonary bypass circuits (MCPBC) have been created to...