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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;72:S2227-S2233
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Supplement: Monitoring and improving patient safety during and following cardiac surgery

Intraoperative metabolic monitoring of the heart: II. Online measurement of myocardial tissue pH

Kamal R. Khabbaz, MD*a, Fuad Zankoul, MDa, Kenneth G. Warner, MDa

a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New England Medical Center, and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

* Address reprint requests to Dr Khabbaz, New England Medical Center Cardiothoracic Surgery, Box 266, 750 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA
e-mail: kkhabbaz{at}lifespan.org

Presented at Monitoring and Improving Patient Safety During and Following Cardiac Surgery, San Diego, CA, May 5, 2001.

Abstract

Under conditions of ischemia, the hydrogen ion [H+] accumulates in the myocardial tissue in proportion to the magnitude of the ischemic insult. The accumulation of [H+] is the result of both increased anaerobic production of [H+] secondary to decreased substrate and decreased washout of [H+] secondary to decreased coronary perfusion. The Khuri tissue pH electrode/monitoring system has been developed and validated over the past two decades. Its scientific basis and correlates have been established, and it is the only system that has been approved for use in humans. Myocardial tissue pH has been monitored in the anterior and posterior walls of the left ventricle in more than 700 patients undergoing major cardiac surgery. An understanding of the relationship between pH and temperature and between the pH and [H+] in tissues is important for the proper interpretation of the myocardial pH data generated in the course of an operation. Intraoperative monitoring of myocardial pH is the only modality available to the cardiac surgeon for online assessment and improvement of the adequacy of myocardial protection. By defining myocardial protection in terms of protection from myocardial tissue acidosis, this technology provides a new tool with which the comparative efficacy of the various myocardial protection techniques can be assessed. It also provides an online tool for assessing the adequacy of coronary revascularization, and has the potential of improving procedures and outcomes for off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.




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