The cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) promotes major changes to the body of the patient that needs to be subjected to this procedure, but it can be circumvented or minimized with specific maneuvers for each situation. Despite being an established technique in human medicine, there are still improvements to be achieved. The purposes of this work were to clarify the cardiopulmonary bypass and inform its hemodynamic effects when applied to dogs. Four mongrel healthy dogs were used. The animals were anesthetized and monitored and samples were collected (T0). After that, the animals underwent median sternotomy and cannulation of the aorta and cranial and caudal vena cava and they were kept in CPB for a period of 30 minutes (T1), then disconnected from the CPB machine during 30 minutes in reperfusion process (T2), followed by one hour of reperfusion (T3), and then they were euthanized. The following parameters were evaluated: mean arterial pressure (MAP), central venous pressure (CVP), oxygenation (SaO2) and capnography (ETCO2). MAP, CVP and SaO2 remained within normal limits during the times evaluated. Although the observed average of ETCO2 was low in one of the experimental animals, it maintained the values within the normal range in most experimental animals. We concluded that CPB can be performed in dogs without severe hemodynamic compromise, considering the parameters evaluated in this experiment.
Cardiopulmonary bypass; dog; surgery; veterinary cardiology