The Influence of Polyvinyl Chloride (P.V.C.) Tubing on the Isolated Perfused Rat's Heart
- 1 January 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation Research
- Vol. 8 (1), 44-46
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.res.8.1.44
Abstract
Perfusion of the isolated rat's heart through certain types of polyvinyl chloride tubing results in a deterioration of cardiac performance. Since plastics are commonly used in heart-lung machines and transfusion-sets, this observation may be of some importance.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- HÆMOLYSIS CAUSED BY TUBING IN EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATIONThe Lancet, 1959