Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Nov 1994
Mechanisms of change in cardiac performance in infants undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
To determine whether changes in cardiac performance observed in infants early during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation are due to the underlying disease process, the partial bypass procedure, changes in cardiac loading conditions, or due to a direct myocardial effect of hypoxia-reoxygenation. ⋯ The previously described decreases in cardiac performance during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation are not due to the underlying disease process or the bypass procedure but are due to changes in loading conditions during partial bypass.