To the Editor:Moderate hypothermia-induced ventricular fibrillation arrest has gained increasing attention in minimally invasive surgery.It has been applied not only in minimal-incision and thoracoscopic procedures,bu...To the Editor:Moderate hypothermia-induced ventricular fibrillation arrest has gained increasing attention in minimally invasive surgery.It has been applied not only in minimal-incision and thoracoscopic procedures,but also,more recently,in robotic surgery.[1–4]As the number and variety of totally thoracoscopic procedures we performed increase,we have successfully combined this approach with moderate hypothermia-induced ventricular fibrillatory arrest for cardiac reoperations.展开更多
文摘To the Editor:Moderate hypothermia-induced ventricular fibrillation arrest has gained increasing attention in minimally invasive surgery.It has been applied not only in minimal-incision and thoracoscopic procedures,but also,more recently,in robotic surgery.[1–4]As the number and variety of totally thoracoscopic procedures we performed increase,we have successfully combined this approach with moderate hypothermia-induced ventricular fibrillatory arrest for cardiac reoperations.
