
Cardiopulmonary Bypass | Blood Required to Prime Extracorporeal Circuit
Purpose: | To calculate the amount of blood needed to prime the extracorporeal circuit prior to cardiopulmonary bypass. |
Specialty: | Clinical Laboratory |
Objective: | other testing, surgery |
ICD-10: | I05-I09, I34, I35, I36, I37, I38 |
Description: | The amount of blood required to prime the extracorporeal circuit of a heart-lung bypass machine can be estimated from several features of the patient and the circuit. |
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