The user facility reported to terumo cardiovascular that during cardiopulmonary bypass the p02 values dropped.
Per user facility, the patient undergone replacement of the pulmonary artery valve following previous surgery.
After 4 and a half hours of cec the parameters of p02 and pc02 were normal.
They stated that the act values were >480 seconds, but the blood sitting stagnant in the pleural space for an unknown period of time (the blood was aspirated from the pleural space after ~4.
5 hours) would not have had an act value of 480 seconds.
About 2.
2 liters of blood was aspirated from the pleura, intervention conducted with c02 delivery in the chest between 5-10 liters per minute.
There was approximately 300ml of blood loss.
The product was changed out.
The surgery was completed successfully.
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