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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001;121:0336-0343
© 2001 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease

Comparison of neurologic outcome after deep hypothermic circulatory arrest with alpha-stat and pH-stat cardiopulmonary bypass in newborn pigs

From the Brain Research Laboratory,^a Joseph Stokes Research Institute, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics,^b and the Department of Pathology,^c University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.

Received for publication June 15, 2000. Revisions requested July 22, 2000; revisions received Sept 28, 2000. Accepted for publication Oct 16, 2000. Address for reprints: Margaret Priestley, MD, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th St and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (E-mail: Priestley{at}email.chop.edu).

Objective: Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest for neonatal heart surgery poses the risk of brain damage. Several studies suggest that pH-stat management during cardiopulmonary bypass improves neurologic outcome compared with alpha-stat management. This study compared neurologic outcome in a survival piglet model of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest between alpha-stat and pH-stat cardiopulmonary bypass.
Methods: Piglets were randomly assigned to alpha-stat (n = 7) or pH-stat (n = 7) cardiopulmonary bypass, cooled to 19°C brain temperature, and subjected to 90 minutes of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. After bypass rewarming/reperfusion, they survived 2 days. Neurologic outcome was assessed by neurologic performance (0-95, 0 = no deficit and 95 = brain death) and functional disability scores, as well as histopathology. Arterial pressure, blood gas, glucose, and brain temperature were recorded before, during, and after bypass.
Results: All physiologic data during cardiopulmonary bypass were similar between groups (pH-stat vs alpha-stat) except arterial pH (7.06 ± 0.03 vs 7.43 ± 0.09, P < .001) and arterial PCO₂ (98 ± 8 vs 36 ± 8 mm Hg, P < .001). No differences existed in duration of cardiopulmonary bypass or time to extubation. Performance was better in pH-stat versus alpha-stat management at 24 hours (2 ± 3 vs 29 ± 17, P = 0.004) and 48 hours (1 ± 2 vs 8 ± 9, P = .1). Also, functional disability was less severe with pH-stat management at 24 hours (P = .002) and 48 hours (P = .053). Neuronal cell damage was less severe with pH-stat versus alpha-stat in the neocortex (4% ± 2% vs 15% ± 7%, P < .001) and hippocampal CA1 region (11% ± 5% vs 33% ± 25%, P = .04), but not in the hippocampal CA3 region (3% ± 5% vs 16% ± 23%, P = .18) or dentate gyrus (1% ± 1% vs 3% ± 6%, P = .63).
Conclusions: pH-stat cardiopulmonary bypass management improves neurologic outcome with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest compared with alpha-stat bypass. The mechanism of protection is not related to hemodynamics, hematocrit, glucose, or brain temperature.

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