After initiating cardiopulmonary bypass, we could not reach full flow on cardiopulmonary bypass, the rpms were maxed out.Lines were checked for clamps and kinks.Albumin was in the prime.(b)(6) was called to the room to assist.Lines were checked again, we vented the oxygenator and went up and down on flow several times.Full flow could not be reached.After 10 minutes of being on pump, we tried to change the centrifugal pump head.We refilled the patient with blood and changed the pump head.This made a minimal improvement, but we could still not reach full flow.The decision was made to change the oxygenator.The oxygenator was swapped out with approximately 300ml of blood loss in the oxygenator.We deaired the lines and returned to bypass.We were able to reach full flow.The incident was reported to medtronic and they are evaluating the biohead and the oxygenator.
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