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Welcome back to Behind the Knife and our Cardiac Surgery Crash Course.

The Cardiac OR can be a daunting place for any medical student or resident who finds

themselves on a Cardiac Surgery rotation.

On behalf of no fear, this Cardiac Surgery Crash Course is a short series focused on

high-yield topics to help introduce students and residents to Cardiac Surgery prior to

or during a Cardiac Surgery rotation.

My name is Jessica Malar.

Hi, I'm Nick Teaman, a Cardiac Surgeon at the University of Virginia.

We hope you find our series useful and if you have any suggestions or requests, please feel

free to reach out to us by email, which you can find in the show notes for this episode.

So our topic for today will be focused on one of the most important aspects of Cardiac

Surgery, which is Cardiopolony bypass, a vast majority of the operations that we perform

as Cardiac Surgeons would not be possible without bypass.

So let's start by talking about what bypass even is.

Jessica, how would you define Cardiopolony bypass for someone who's not familiar with it?

Yeah, so Cardiopolony bypass is a way in which we can divert blood away from the heart

and lungs, so in other words, our searchable field during Cardiac Surgery and allows

for a bloodless operating field.

Additionally, the bypass machine will take over the normal physiologic functions of the

heart and lungs during the operation.

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