[HSF] Cardiac arrest after redo CABG in a young patient

[zzhoumd at pol.net]

To forum members,

This weekend I was on call. One of my partners patients developed cardiac arrest. He is only 57 year old had redo CABGx5 4 days ago. Weight about 300LB. After 30 minutes CPR, he is still asystole. Considering his young age, I placed him on ECMO. I thought about BiVAD, but I just do not know if his brain will come back. Just wonder if anybody will do anything different. I did not reexplore him as TEE show no tampnade and he has no more conduit.

Thanks!

Z Zhou
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