I meant to post this on Friday but then…

Anyway, I took care of a 63-year-old having redo-CABG and MVR on Friday. Her starting EF was 25% at best! Well, all hell broke loose when we tried to come off CPB. The right heart wouldn’t play ball – it kept failing.

So we let the Milrinone and Epi run, added an IABP and waited and waited. An hour later, she was off CPB with an index of 2.2 and a mixed-venous saturation of 78-82. Her hematocrit was never an issue.

I have just observed countless times how time heals matters of the heart in the OR. I guess it also applies in everyday life!

A ggod friend from the other side of the “blood-brain-barrier” commented positively on my blog and saw it as something more than cases and tales from anesthesia. She thought it represented the perioperative phase. So I’ve changed the tagline to mirror that.

Hope it brings more readers!