Kyriakos Anastasiadis, Polychronis Antonitsis, Helena Argiriadou, authors.
--Berlin, Heidelberg:
Springer
, c2013.
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Minimal extracorporeal circulation (MECC) systems have been designed in order to reduce dramatically the side-effects of conventional extracorporeal circulation while serving as a safe perfusion technique for open heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. However, the low penetration of this technology in contemporary practice means that few surgical centres have accumulated sufficient experience to share it with the scientific community. Furthermore, much of the knowledge on the use of MECC s…