[HSF] Deairing the heart

[Jean BACHET]

Dear Ani,

Sorry for disagreeing with you this time. Your argument that, as opinions
are quite various the matter should not be important, seems to me a little
weak. Take politics for instance. It is a very important matter. Yet,
opinions are extremely numerous and often opposed!!

Jean Bachet.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ani Anyanwu" <anianyanwu at hotmail.com>
To: <OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: [HSF] Deairing the heart


The numerous and highly variable views on this topic, to the extent of even
discussing how to put a needle in the aorta to extract air best (I must
confess I was stunned at the seriousness many attach to this), consolidate
my view that most of what we do in this regard (deairing) is either,
ill-understood, inconsequential or irrelevant.

My suspicion is that it doesn’t really matter what we do - so far as one
gets the gross air out, the rest is fine talk. I know I will as usually
incur the wrath of my seniors, but if it is so crucial and as technical as
list members portray, how come we are getting so many highly opinionated but
varying views? Surely they can't all be right at the same time? Maybe they
can all be wrong though...Of course the red flag is that practically no
contributor on this has provided evidence (experimental or clinical) to
justify their deairing strategy - at the end of the day it is just surgeon
preference, voodoo or a recipe handed by our teachers. I suspect whatever
one chooses (apart from ignoring the air) works, not because of what we do,
but because of the attempts we make (by whatever means) to remove the air.

Ani
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