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Can cardiopulmonary bypass be a safe procedure?

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’safe’ is a difficult word when applied to the many-faceted procedure of cardiopulmonary bypass. The dictionary definition is ‘without risk’ and risk itself is very much a subjective matter. For instance most of us think of the home as an acceptably safe place in which to live, and we accept most modern forms of public transport to be ‘safe’. However figures published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)1 show that in 1977 there were 7076 deaths (42 % of the total) due to transport accidents and 6407 (37 %) deaths resulting from accidents in the home in Great Britain. There were 110 reported deaths (0.5 %) due to surgical and medical misadventure, but this is undoubtedly a gross underestimate.

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  1. Department of Clinical Physiology, The National Heart Hospital, London, W1M 8BA, UK

    D. B. Longmore (Consultant Clinical Physiologist) (Consultant Clinical Physiologist)

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Wheeldon, D.R. (1981). Can cardiopulmonary bypass be a safe procedure?. In: Longmore, D.B. (eds) Towards Safer Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8048-8_28

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