Minimized Cardiopulmonary Bypass Techniques and Technologies

Traditional cardiopulmonary bypass techniques have suffered from a number of disadvantages including haemodilution, inflammation and post-operative bleeding. Minimized cardiopulmonary bypass techniques use developments in perfusion technology to significantly reduce foreign surface-blood interactions to make bypass simpler and safer. This important book summarizes recent research on minimized cardioplumonary bypass techniques. The first part of the book reviews fundamental issues such as physiology and haemodilution. Other chapters review technologies and applications.