Blood preserving technology in cardiac surgery

According to the program of blooding surgery 297 patients were operated with coronary heart disease, acquired and congenital cardiac diseases and others. The introduction of principles of bloodless surgery is favoured by not only risk from donor transfusion, but also by the results of the reserchers dealing with the body's adaptation to acute anemia. The present study was undertaken to make a scientific-and-practical assessment of actual own blood funds and their introduction in order to decrease or refuse to use donor blood at cardiac surgery under extracorporeal circulation. Own blood saving methods, such as acute normovolemic hemodilution, washed autoerythrocytic reinfusion, autoplasma reinfusion, become affective in reducing hemorrhage after extracorporeal circulation. This method is safe, simple in organization, and permitted to avoid allogeneic blood transfusion and its complications

Permanent cardiostimulation ih the general surgery

Paper is devoted to the safety rules during surgical interventions on patients with permanent pacemaker. Data of 123 operated patients with intraoperative pacemaker instability were analyzed; possible causes of these complications were discussed. The use of monopolar electrocoagulation proved to be the most frequent cause of pacemaker failure. Strong correlation between rhythm failure and duration of the single electrocautery exposure was revealed