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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1994;107:860-867
© 1994 Mosby, Inc.

CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS, MYOCARDIAL MANAGEMENT, AND SUPPORT TECHNIQUES

Normothermic blood cardioplegiaAlternative or adjunct?

Los Angeles, Calif.

From the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif.

Received for publication July 26, 1993. Accepted for publication Sept. 16, 1993. Address for reprints: Gerald D. Buckberg, MD, UCLA Medical Center, Department of Surgery, B2-375, CHS, 10833 LeConte Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024-1741.

Abstract

Normothermic blood cardioplegia was developed originally to be used during cardioplegic induction and reperfusion as an adjunct for enhancing metabolic reversal of biochemical alterations occurring before, during, and after total myocardial ischemia. This adjunct was introduced clinically after extensive experimental testing. By contrast, continuous normothermic blood cardioplegia without hypothermia was introduced clinically without a scientific infrastructure and has generated great interest because of its simplicity and encouraging early results, but has caused substantial confusion. This report is written to (1) clarify the role of normothermic blood cardioplegia as an adjunct to available hypothermic and antegrade and retrograde methods of myocardial protection, rather than as an alternative to them, (2) call attention to the misconception that continuous coronary perfusion avoids ischemia inasmuch as "unintentional ischemia" may occur despite continuous coronary perfusion, (3) identify theoretic and practical limitations of warm continuous retrograde blood cardioplegia exposed by testing after its clinical introduction, (4) enumerate the unanswered questions posed after clinical use of this method, and (5) focus on the self-imposed inflexibility created by adoption of adversarial positions in regard to cardioprotective strategies that impedes our ability to combine, rationally, the spectrum of approaches to myocardial protection that have evolved from the recognized limitations of individual methods. (J THORACCARDIOVASCSURG1994;107:860-7)

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