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What does cardioplegia mean?

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Noun
  1. (surgery) The deliberate, temporary cessation of cardiac activity before heart surgery
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Following a bypass the Hot Shot function offers the perfusionist the opportunity to immediately administer normothermal blood cardioplegia which contain substrates rich in energy.
He or she then evacuates air from the ascending aorta by infusing cardioplegia through the vent and allowing the cardioplegia to exit through the aorta.
For myocardial protection, we preferred blood cardioplegia with normothermia and antegrade-retrograde cardioplegia.
Coronary ostia cannulae are used to deliver cardioplegia solution to the coronary arteries during cardiac surgery.
Typically, the heart is injected with a cardioplegia solution while it is still inside the donor, paralyzing the organ.
CardioTech manufactures cardiovascular tubing systems, arterial filters, oxygenators, cardioplegia systems, and oxygen saturation monitors.

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