[HSF] Apical saline insufflation

[Nasser F. Abou'Seada]

I quite agree with you Prasanna .... I do exactly the same .... and I do
believe that apical insufflation is more accurate and assuring ..... always
easy to do .... amy be cause of TVMC??? ...

NFA


On 6/4/07, prasannasimha <prasannasimha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is an old  picture of a repair done with a pericardial band. You
> can see the excellent coaptation while the ventricle is insufflated
> apically with the fluid egressing from the aortic root vent
> demonstrating full filling and distention of the ventricle. Such a
> result correlates very well with periop and postop TEE. Striving for
> that makes decision making simple.
> Somehow for me the transmitral insufflation  seems to be faulty at times
> as usually a "lip" can "unfurl" demonstrating a leak under pressure and
> appears competent with plain transmitral insufflation.Lots of people use
> it successfully but it is not a good method in my hand. (Despite trying
> to use the parrallel line of coaptationa and fill and press rules etc
> etc. Could  people educate me on this further. I obviously am doing
> something wrong with that method though I seem to have no problems with
> the apical saline insufflation method. My colleague has become so
> convinced with apical saline insufflation that he always asks me to do
> it in addition (It is my habit to call some one else and always
> demonstrate it to them also - sort of an internal quality control)
> Prasanna
>
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Nasser  F.  Abou'Seada,
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