caa a22 4500 475754131 CHVBK 20180406123533.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s005950070035 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s005950070035 Mediastinal Irrigation with Superoxidized Water After Open-Heart Surgery: The Safety and Pitfalls of Cardiovascular Surgical Application [Elektronische Daten] [Hideaki Ohno, Masafumi Higashidate, Tatsuya Yokosuka] Postoperative mediastinal infection after open-heart surgery via median sternotomy is a devastating complication. In this paper, we describe a simple method of irrigating the mediastinum using superoxidized water to prevent perioperative contamination. After mediastinal hemostasis was done, warm superoxidized water of more than 2 l was uninterruptedly irrigated for 5 min immediately prior to sternal closure. We have used this method in 25 patients undergoing cardiac surgery, and noted significant perioperative electrocardiographic changes, including ST elevation, without hemodynamic compromise in 15 of these patients. Springer-Verlag, 2000 Key words Superoxidized water nationallicence Mediastinal irrigation nationallicence Cardiac surgery nationallicence Ohno Hideaki Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yokohama National Hospital, 3-60-2 Harajuku, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 245-8575, Japan, JP aut Higashidate Masafumi Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yokohama National Hospital, 3-60-2 Harajuku, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 245-8575, Japan, JP aut Yokosuka Tatsuya Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yokohama National Hospital, 3-60-2 Harajuku, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 245-8575, Japan, JP aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s005950070035 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s005950070035 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ohno Hideaki Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yokohama National Hospital, 3-60-2 Harajuku, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 245-8575, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Higashidate Masafumi Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yokohama National Hospital, 3-60-2 Harajuku, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 245-8575, Japan, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yokosuka Tatsuya Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yokohama National Hospital, 3-60-2 Harajuku, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 245-8575, Japan, JP aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer