Perfusion Without Borders: The Mission Experience (EP Video)

This report highlights the need for a coordinated approach to substantial arterial air embolization, considering the high risk of neurologic injury.

Our results demonstrate significant metabolic disturbances between dorsocaudal and ventral lung regions during supine mechanical ventilation with or without CPB/DHCA. CPB/DHCA also leads to metabolic differences and may have additive effects to the regional disturbances. Most pathways driving this pathology are involved in energy metabolism and the metabolism of amino acids, carbohydrates, and reduction–oxidation pathways.