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A new internal cardiac massage technique.

Cardiac Surgery Department, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery (impact factor: 0.87). 06/2008; 23(6):739-40. DOI:10.1111/j.1540-8191.2008.00603.x pp.739-40
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT Classical internal cardiac massage mostly can increase systolic blood pressure to maintain sufficient brain and systemic organ perfusion but diastolic blood pressure commonly remains below 10 mmHg. To be able to increase the diastolic blood pressure sufficiently, the surgeon grabs the distal part of the ascending aorta between the thumb and index finger of the left hand and squeezes it during the diastolic time period to increase the diastolic pressure. Ascending aorta is released during ventricular squeezing, and subsequently ascending aorta is squeezed during the ventricular relaxation.

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Keywords

aorta
 
Ascending aorta
 
Classical internal cardiac massage
 
diastolic blood pressure
 
diastolic pressure
 
diastolic time period
 
distal part
 
index finger
 
sufficient brain
 
systemic organ perfusion
 

Erkan Kuralay