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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 39, 318-323, Copyright © 1985 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons


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Some observations on cerebral perfusion during cardiopulmonary bypass

T Lundar, T Froysaker, KF Lindegaard, J Wiberg, H Lindberg, H Rostad and H Nornes

Blood flow was recorded with an electromagnetic flow probe on one internal carotid artery (ICA) during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in 5 patients. The ICA flow was monitored continuously along with arterial blood pressure, epidural intracranial pressure, and cerebral electrical activity using a cerebral function monitor (3 patients). The ICA flow increased by 50 to 100% at the inception of extracorporeal circulation. This rapid enhancement of flow occurred within a thirty-second period and was due to rapid arterial hemodilution caused by introduction of the priming solution. A transitory fall in ICA flow was observed during subsequent minutes when the well-recognized drop in blood pressure took place and the cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP = blood pressure - epidural intracranial pressure) was reduced to less than 30 mm Hg. In only one instance, however, when CPP fell to 15 mm Hg, was the fall in flow lower than the prebypass level. Throughout the rest of CPB, with steady-state hemodilution and CPP levels in the range of 30 to 50 mm Hg, ICA flow was markedly enhanced (50 to 100% above the prebypass level). The flow pattern, however, disclosed a pressure-passive system, indicating that cerebral autoregulation was impaired or that the CPP levels were lower than the individual lower limit of cerebral autoregulation during the period of steady-state hemodilution on CPB. A transient depression of cerebral electrical activity was seen in 2 patients shortly after the introduction of CPB. This phenomenon is suggestive of qualitatively insufficient perfusion and was observed even when ICA bulk flow was increased (hematocrit values, 13 to 17%).


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