Hypothermia as a Means of Performing Intracardiac Surgery Under Direct Vision

摘要

One of the aims of cardiac surgery today is to discover anninnocuous method of rendering the chambers of the heart blood-nless, so that they may be opened to permit definitive operationsnon the valves and septa under direct vision. It is felt by mostninvestigators that the best way to achieve this is to aflow thenblood to by-pass the heart and lungs and flow through a mech-nanical heart and an artificial oxygenator. However, in hypothermianthe possibility of a much more simple method exists.