Warm Heart Surgery

SURGXL also recognizes the benefits of the Warm-heart technique. Just as the heart lung machine was developed to enable surgical treatment of cardiac disease, hypothermia – or decreasing the patient’s body temperature – was also utilized in the early years of heart surgery.

Recently, however, surgical outcomes and patient function after surgery have been improved using Normothermic – heart surgery at a little less than normal body temperature. This technique includes continuous normothermic blood supply to the heart even when it is stopped. The heart itself resumes normal function more quickly and is less “stunned” when supplied with continuous flow of warm oxygenated blood during procedures