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Ann Thorac Surg 1991;52:797-804
© 1991 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Heart rate-right ventricular volume relation with myocardial revascularization

Departments of Anesthesia and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina USA

Accepted for publication May 13, 1991.

^_* Address reprint requests to Dr Johnston, Department of Anesthesia, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1009.

Whether increasing pacing frequency in cardiac surgical patients effectively improves right ventricular cardiac index depends on the interrelationships between heart rate, stroke volume index, and end-diastolic volume index. If an inverse relation exists between heart rate and right ventricular volume then the decrease in right ventricular ejection fraction described after bypass may be due, in part, to changes in heart rate. We evaluated the effects of pacing at 80, 95, and 110 beats/min using a thermodilution volumetric catheter in 16 patients undergoing myocardial revascularization. End-diastolic volume index, stroke volume index, and stroke work index were significantly greater after bypass than before bypass, whereas right ventricular ejection fraction remained constant. Before and after bypass, sequentially increasing pacing frequency from 80 to 110 beats/min decreased stroke volume index by 28% to 35% (p < 0.001), end-diastolic volume index by 12% to 14% (p < 0.001), and right ventricular ejection fraction by 18% to 24% (p < 0.001). Right ventricular performance, assessed by comparing the stroke volume index to end-diastolic volume index and stroke work index to end-diastolic volume index relations generated during pacing, was not altered by bypass. We conclude that sequentially increasing heart rate from 80 to 110 beats/min fails to improve stroke volume index and consequently cardiac index before or after cardiac operations. Intraoperatively, in patients with normal left ventricular function, increasing pacing frequency decreases right ventricular ejection fraction due to simultaneous reductions in stroke volume index and end-diastolic volume index.

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