Psychiatric aspects of profound hypothermia in open-heart surgery

Open Cardiac Surgery during Profound Hypothermia

On Tuesday, 31st January 1961, I was privileged to assist at an operation performed y Mr. Ronald Belsey at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, for closure of an atrial septal e?t (A.S.D.) under profound hypothermia. This was the first case to be allotted 0 a student dresser, although the sixth one in the profound hypothermia series in r^stol, and an account of it may be of both topical and historical ...

Neurological and Psychiatric Aspects of Open-heart Surgery.

Open Heart Surgery under Hypothermia

Fourty-three operations were performed on a total of 41 patients consisting of atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, ventricular septal defect with pulmonary stenosis, tetralogy of Fallot, aortic valve stenosis, pulmonary valve stenosis and coarctation of the aorta under hypothermia using intrathoracic rewarming. All patients but 2 cases with tetralogy Fallot have been completely cur...

Anesthesia in Cardiac Surgery (Open-Closed Heart)

In this paper the duties of an anesthesiologist and his right of i=;electing patient is discussed. La,ter, we di:=:cuss the <::mergencies cf heart surgery, pre up visit and alsc few dcails of pre up medication cf thei,e pati<mts. We also touch on the stages of anesthPsia and point to our preference for the use cf artery and vein for arterial and venous cannulation. In this paper we discuss in b...

Treatment of Open Heart Surgery Complications

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