Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting without Extracorporeal Circulation: one case report / 대한흉부외과학회지

Coronary artery bypass grafting(CABG) without cardiopulmonary bypass(CPB) is now an accepted technique of myocardial revascularization in selective cases of coronary arterial occlusive disease. The lesion was total(100%) occlusion of proximal right coronary artery (RCA) without any evidence of disease in the rest of coronary arteries. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty(PTCA) was tried but unsuccessful. We herein report a case of successful CABG to right coronary artery without CPB on a patient with complete occlusion of RCA and symptomatic with minimal activity.

Anesthesia for Heart Transplantation / 대한마취과학회지

Cardiac transplantation has become an acceptable therapy for patients with end stage heart disease over the last decade. We experienced a case of heart transplantation to the 50 year old female patient. We used sterile technique all the time to reduce the incidence of infection. Anesthesia was induced and maintained with fentanyl 100 ug/kg. After cardiopulmonary bypass, blood products, inotropics and vasodilators were given to maintain myocardial contractility and cardiac output. The patient recovered uneventfully and discharged on 29th postoperative day.

Changes of Circuratory Response during Intubation by Small Dose Fentanyl / 대한마취과학회지

Induction of general anesthesia with tracheal intubation is routine procedure but causes significant tarchycardia and hypertension. Many approaches have been tried to attenuate these circulatory response. The effects of small dose fentanyl on arterial pressure and heart rate increase during intubation were studied in 40 normotensive patients, who were randomly allocated to two groups, receiving saline (Control group) or fentanyl 2ug/kg (Fentanyl group), in a double blind fashion during anesthetic induction with thiopental 5mg/kg. Systolic, diastolic, mean arterial pressure and heart rate were measured and rate pressure product was calculated. All parameters were significantly different between two groups (p<0,05) and control group was significant increase in blood pressure and heart rate compared with pre-induction value but fentanyl group was relatively small changes of blood pressure and heart rate (p<0.01). After tracheal intubation, incresed blood pressure was returned to pre-induction value within two to three minutes in fentanyl group but heart rate was not returned pre-induction value within 5 minutes. Dose of fentanyl that are low enough to cause any side effects of drug itself, no notable side effects were observed during study and recovery.