Principles of cross circulation & its clinical applications

• 1955

• A normal adult is used to provide a donar circulation

• ‘Placental circulation’

• A dramatic success: used in 45 operations

• Donar provided correction of all metabolic & haematological derangements

• Was some years before the results could be duplicated in equivalent sick patients using a pump oxygenator

• Circuit consisted of both a venous & arterial pump & a venous reservoir

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