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Ann Thorac Surg 1983;36:332-344
© 1983 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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A Comparison of Volume Loading and Atrial Pacing Following Aortocoronary Bypass

From the Divisions of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiology, and Clinical Biochemistry, the Toronto General Hospital and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada

Accepted for publication October 22, 1982.

^* Address reprint requests to Dr. Weisel, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, EN 13–224, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Ont, Canada M5G 1L7

Although cold potassium cardioplegia provides adequate myocardial protection, transient hemodynamic and metabolic instability occasionally occurs after uncomplicated coronary bypass surgery. Two methods to increase cardiac output were compared 2 to 6 hours postoperatively in 24 patients recovering from elective coronary bypass operation. Volume loading increased cardiac index (CI) from 2.1 ± 0.5 to 2.7 ± 0.6 L/min/m² by increasing left atrial pressure (LAP) from 8.6 ± 3.6 to 13.0 ± 4.1 mm Hg. Atrial pacing at a rate of 112 ± 8 beats per minute increased CI from 2.4 ± 0.5 to 2.7 ± 0.8 L/min/m² without a change in LAP. Ejection fraction by nuclear angiography did not change, but the calculated left ventricular end-diastolic volume index (stroke index/ejection fraction) increased with volume loading and decreased with atrial pacing—a decrease in diastolic compliance. Myocardial oxygen extraction did not change, but myocardial lactate extraction increased with volume loading and decreased with atrial pacing. Coronary sinus blood flow was measured in 5 patients and increased with both methods studied.

Volume loading demonstrated that myocardial performance was normal and myocardial metabolism increased commensurate with the increase in work. Atrial pacing increased CI but resulted in anaerobic metabolism and a decrease in diastolic compliance. Volume loading rather than atrial pacing will improve CI without producing ischemia in the early postoperative period.

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