Cardiopulmonary Bypass Lab Report

During clinical I got the chance to be able to observe surgeries that were schedule to happen in the operating room. The surgery I observed was an aortic valve replacement with the patient being put on cardiopulmonary bypass. The patient being put on the cardiopulmonary bypass machine will help reduce damage to the tissues and heart. Along with being on this machine the heart will need to be cooled and the core body temperature. The heart can be cooled in two different ways, which are pouring cold salt-water saline, and the second technique is to cool the blood as it passes through the machine to circulate back into the body to help bring the temperature down gradually (Texas, 2016). The cooling technique used in this procedure was cooling the blood down as it circulated through the machine and back into the body. Once the heart and body temperature is cooled down to the
For example, I witnessed the vital signs on the monitor began to decline until the patient was fully on the machine and then the QRST started to show a flat-line. The cardiopulmonary bypass machine is used to help keep the heart still for the operation and the blood circulating through the body. The machine acts like the heart by pumping the blood along with oxygenating the blood. There are different chambers that the blood circulates through a chamber in order to become oxygenated and then circulate through the body. And the blood is brought back out of the body and the oxygen is removed from the blood. All the blood is stored in one big chamber that is divided into two parts the top part is filled with the blood being removed from the body while the bottom part is the oxygenated blood. The patient is allowed to be on the cardiopulmonary bypass machine for however long the doctor will need to complete the