Years ago, starting our adventure in the world of Medicine, knowledge was linked to the textbooks, publications, conferences, lectures, seminars that kept us up to date on new diagnostic and therapeutic options. The disclosure was slowly traveling between the tracks of the printed paper. The need to update went beyond the technical and communicative possibilities in...
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Life, as we know, is often hanging by a thread. How many times we have gotten surprised for unexpected news when a loved one in full health, is suddenly lacking. That thread that binds us to life can be broken in a moment. Interrupting and affecting us emotionally and disrupting plans, like a switch turns off the light. Robert (fictitious name), fifty years old, his...
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Coronary arteries supply oxygen and nutrients to cardiac myocellulas. The contractility of the heart and therefore the pump function is proportional to the good function of the coronary circle. The reduction of coronary flow by stenosis of one or more coronary arteries or even occlusion causes damage to the tributary myocellulas of those arteries, which lack oxygen, suffer and die. This is the genesis of ischemia and myocardial infarction.
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Aortic aneurysm is the dilation of the Aorta in its various sections, Ascending, Arch, Descending Thoracic, Abdominal. These portions of the aorta may be affected individually or in combination. The type of treatment depends on the trait or traits of the aorta involved. The nature of this disease is usually atherosclerotic or degenerative, sometimes linked to...
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For its normal operation and management during cardiac surgery, it’s necessary the presence of specialized personnel, the cardiopulmonary bypass technician (perfusionist), who takes care, following the instructions of the cardiac surgeon, to start the CPB, to conduct it in the various phases of the intervention and to stop it when the cardiac surgeon completes the heart surgery.
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