1. 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 (March 1994)
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2. 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.
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