Cardiopulmonary Bypass Using Centrifugal Pump

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Abstract
Centrifugal pumps are nonocclusive pumps that offer centrifugal blood pumping known as the constrained force vortex principle. Of 2405 open heart procedures, 370 (15.4%) were performed with a centrif ugal pump (CP). In the rest of the cases extracorporeal circulation (ECC) was established with conventional roller pump (RP). The operations performed with a CP were: 34 reoperations, 11 ascending aortic aneurysms + coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), 47 multivalve replacements, 125 CABG + left ventricu lar aneurysmectomies, and 153 CABGs alone. This prospective study consisted of two groups, each group including 50 patients undergoing CABG surgery. In group I ECC was established with a CP and in group II with a conventional RR The two selected groups of patients were considered to be similar in terms of clinical, hemodynamic, and angio graphic data. Hemodynamic study concerned flow rate, systemic vascular re sistance (SVR), and urinary output. No difference was found between the CP and RP hemodynamically. Nevertheless, the alteration of the flow rate in re sponse to variation of SVR is accepted as an advantage. As for hemolytic effect during ECC of CP compared with RP: Plasma free hemoglobin, hemotocrit, platelet count, platelet factor 4, and fibrinogen levels, were investigated. These parameters revealed that there was significant hemoly sis and trauma to the blood components in the RP group when compared with the CR (p < 0.05, p < 0.01). There was no significant difference in psychoneurologic complications, but behavioral and sensory disorders were encountered sevenfold more in the RP group. This might be due to spoliation of the tubing set or to microair embo lism. Compared with the conventional RP the CP proved to have no hemodynamic advantage. The effects on blood components showed significant trauma to the RP group. Postoperative drainage verified this observation (p < 0.05). In this study the CP appears to be superior to the RP especially in compli cated and prolonged ECC.

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