ABSTRACT
Objective:
In the first periods of cardiac surgery, blood was added to the prime solution. Balanced electrolyte solutions were started to be used since it was difficult to find blood in long-lasting heart surgery cases. Thus, in hospitals, there was the need for blood a decrease in. It is also easier to prepare the bypass system in emergency cases.
Materials and Methods:
In this study, a total of 40 patients, including 20 patients without methyprednisolone (group A) and 20 patients with methylprednisolone added (group B) to included in the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) prime solution. As a parameter of hemogram erythrocyte distribution width-standard deviation (RDW-SD), glucose, lymphocyte, leukocyte, hematocrit (HCT), platelet (PLT), and postoperatively routinely controlled data were compared and evaluated.
Results:
There was no statistically significant difference between lymphocyte, leukocyte, RDW-SD, leukocyte, HCT, PLT values and the stay of intensive care unite, intubation time and drainage amount (p>0.05). Hospital stay in group B cases was shorter than in group A cases (p<0.018). A significant difference was found between the groups in terms of both preoperative and postoperative mean glucose values (p<0.001). Postoperative blood glucose values were found to be higher and statistically significant in group B patients, especially those using methylprednisolone (p<0.001).
Conclusion:
As a result of this study, it was concluded that patients who were applied non-pulsatile flow during CPB had more beneficial effects than patients who did not add methylprednisolone to prime solution.