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Author(s):  
Steinar Kristiansen ◽  
Benjamin Storm ◽  
Dalia Dahle ◽  
Terje Domaas Josefsen ◽  
Knut Dybwik ◽  
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Abstract Background Intraosseous cannulation can be life-saving when intravenous access cannot be readily achieved. However, it has been shown that the procedure may cause fat emboli to the lungs and brain. Fat embolization may cause serious respiratory failure and fat embolism syndrome. We investigated whether intraosseous fluid resuscitation in pigs in hemorrhagic shock caused pulmonary or systemic embolization to the heart, brain, or kidneys and if this was enhanced by open chest conditions. Methods We induced hemorrhagic shock in anesthetized pigs followed by fluid-resuscitation through bilaterally placed tibial (hind leg) intraosseous cannulas. The fluid-resuscitation was limited to intraosseous or i.v. fluid therapy, and did not involve cardiopulmonary resuscitation or other interventions. A subgroup underwent median sternotomy with pericardiectomy and pleurotomy before hemorrhagic shock was induced. We used invasive hemodynamic and respiratory monitoring including Swan Ganz pulmonary artery catheter and transesophageal echocardiography and obtained biopsies from the lungs, heart, brain, and left kidney postmortem. Results All pigs exposed to intraosseous infusion had pulmonary fat emboli in postmortem biopsies. Additionally, seven of twenty-one pigs had coronary fat emboli. None of the pigs with open chest had fat emboli in postmortem lung, heart, or kidney biopsies. During intraosseous fluid-resuscitation, three pigs developed significant ST-elevations on ECG; all of these animals had coronary fat emboli on postmortem biopsies. Conclusions Systemic fat embolism occurred in the form of coronary fat emboli in a third of the animals who underwent intraosseous fluid resuscitation. Open chest conditions did not increase the incidence of systemic fat embolization.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinya Yokoyama ◽  
Rei Tonomura ◽  
Ryohei Fukuba ◽  
Kazuhiro Mitani ◽  
Hideki Uemura

Abstract Purpose Sternal splintage is known as an effective maneuver to stabilize hemodynamics during the immediate postoperative period, particularly in very sick infants. On the other hand, its wound management is not always straightforward. We employed dressing using a product made of a hydrocolloid material in such circumstances. This report describes our experience in utilizing the dressing in term of its potential advantages. Materials and methods Six infants needed open chest management following complicated procedures for congenital heart disease. A polytetrafluoroethylene patch was fixed to augment the skin defect at the time of sternal splintage, and a hydrocolloid dressing was applied to entirely cover the wound including the suture line. Result All patients survived their difficult circumstances. None of them suffered wound complications such as infection or healing problem during sternal splintage or subsequent to eventual chest closure. The dressing product was easy to handle with no adverse events associated with its material. Conclusions It is reconfirmed that a dressing made of hydrocolloid material was of practical use for sealing the wound in infants requiring open chest management after cardiac surgery.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 5330
Author(s):  
Francesco Paolo Lo Muzio ◽  
Giacomo Rozzi ◽  
Stefano Rossi ◽  
Giovanni Battista Luciani ◽  
Ruben Foresti ◽  
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The human right ventricle is barely monitored during open-chest surgery due to the absence of intraoperative imaging techniques capable of elaborating its complex function. Accordingly, artificial intelligence could not be adopted for this specific task. We recently proposed a video-based approach for the real-time evaluation of the epicardial kinematics to support medical decisions. Here, we employed two supervised machine learning algorithms based on our technique to predict the patients’ outcomes before chest closure. Videos of the beating hearts were acquired before and after pulmonary valve replacement in twelve Tetralogy of Fallot patients and recordings were properly labeled as the “unhealthy” and “healthy” classes. We extracted frequency-domain-related features to train different supervised machine learning models and selected their best characteristics via 10-fold cross-validation and optimization processes. Decision surfaces were built to classify two additional patients having good and unfavorable clinical outcomes. The k-nearest neighbors and support vector machine showed the highest prediction accuracy; the patients’ class was identified with a true positive rate ≥95% and the decision surfaces correctly classified the additional patients in the “healthy” (good outcome) or “unhealthy” (unfavorable outcome) classes. We demonstrated that classifiers employed with our video-based technique may aid cardiac surgeons in decision making before chest closure.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steinar Kristiansen ◽  
Benjamin Storm ◽  
Dalia Dahle ◽  
Terje Domaas Josefsen ◽  
Knut Dypwik ◽  
...  

Abstract BackgroundIntraosseous cannulation can be life-saving when intravenous access cannot be readily achieved. However, it has been shown that the procedure may cause fat emboli to the lungs and brain. Fat embolization may cause serious respiratory failure and fat embolism syndrome. We investigated whether intraosseous fluid resuscitation in pigs in hemorrhagic shock caused pulmonary or systemic embolization to the heart, brain, or kidneys and if this was enhanced by open chest conditions.MethodsWe induced hemorrhagic shock in anesthetized pigs followed by fluid-resuscitation through bilaterally placed tibial intraosseous cannulas. A subgroup underwent median sternotomy with pericardiectomy and pleurotomy before hemorrhagic shock was induced. We used invasive hemodynamic and respiratory monitoring including Swan Ganz pulmonary artery catheter and transesophageal echocardiography and obtained biopsies from the lungs, heart, brain, and left kidney postmortem.ResultsAll pigs exposed to intraosseous infusion had pulmonary fat emboli in postmortem biopsies. Additionally, seven of twenty-one pigs had coronary fat emboli. None of the pigs with open chest had fat emboli in postmortem lung, heart, or kidney biopsies. During fluid-resuscitation, three pigs developed significant ST-elevations on ECG; all of these animals had coronary fat emboli on postmortem biopsies. ConclusionsSystemic fat embolism occurred in the form of coronary fat emboli in a third of the animals who underwent intraosseous fluid resuscitation. Open chest conditions did not increase the incidence of systemic fat embolization.


2021 ◽  
pp. 002367722110310
Author(s):  
Nina Krutrök ◽  
Susanne Pehrsson ◽  
Natalie Van Zuydam ◽  
Karin Jennbacken ◽  
Johannes Wikström

Open chest surgery in rodents requires assisted breathing and the most common approach for ventilation is via an endotracheal tube. Even with well-trained operators the endotracheal intubation is technically challenging and may lead to prolonged procedures and endotracheal intubation complications. Nose cone ventilation is a simpler procedure compared to endotracheal intubation and has the potential to improve animal welfare by reducing procedure time and endotracheal intubation associated complications. Rats are obligate nose breathers, and therefore replacing intubation with air supply from a nose cone would be an advantage and a more natural way of breathing. Here, we compared the values for several blood gases, blood pressure and heart rate from rats that were nose cone ventilated with rats that underwent endotracheal intubation at 12 timepoints equally distributed across three surgical stages: baseline, open chest and closed chest. Throughout the monitoring period the hemodynamic and blood gas values for both methods of ventilation were within published, normal ranges for the rat and were biologically equivalent (equivalence test p value ≤ 0.05). Our data showed that nose cone ventilation-maintained blood gases and hemodynamic homeostasis equivalent to endotracheal intubation. Nose cone ventilation can be recommended as an alternative to endotracheal intubation in rat experiments where investigators require airway control.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 1061-1063
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Moss ◽  
Ayhan Yoruk
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew Thomas ◽  
Ian A. Makey ◽  
Mauricia A. Buchanan ◽  
Michael G. Heckman ◽  
Launia J. White ◽  
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