Use of hypocalcemic blood cardioplegia with clear extracorporeal primes containing albumin Gerald D. Buckberg, MD, Kai Ihnken, MD, Kiyozo Morita, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 107, Issue 3, Pages 941-942 (March 1994) DOI: 10.5555/uri:pii:S0022522394703531 Copyright © 1994 Mosby, Inc. Terms and Conditions
Fig. 1 Ionized calcium (original) resulting when the extracorporeal circuit is primed with either acalcemic crystalloid (Plasma-Lyte,which contains no calcium) (A) or Ringer's lactate(B)and 25% albumin. Each value reflects the value of n = 5. The other data points show the ionized calcium in 1 L of priming fluid when varying amounts of CaCl2 were added to the mixture of albumin and crystalloid in ratios ranging from 4:1 to 9:1. The hatched line is the normocalcemic range in human blood. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1994 107, 941-942DOI: (10.5555/uri:pii:S0022522394703531) Copyright © 1994 Mosby, Inc. Terms and Conditions