OPEN HEART SURGERY IN INFANTS USING DEEP HYPOTHERMIA AND PARTIAL HEART‐LUNG BYPASS1

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Abstract
Although the greatest mortality in congenital heart disease occurs in the first year of life, to date most cardiac surgical procedures on infants have been palliative because of the difficulties inherent in the performance of heart‐lung bypass in the young. Deep hypothermia with circulatory arrest and partial bypass during the rewarming phase has been shown to be well tolerated by infants and allows for up to one hour of operating time on the open heart under ideal conditions. This paper presents the experience gained with eight patients varying in age from 10 days to 23 months who have had corrective surgery, with one intraoperative death.