Veno-Venous Shunt Connector and Tubing
Off-Pump Shunt · Off-Pump Glenn Shunt · Three-Way Connector · Y Connector · Perfusion Y Connector · Veno-Venous Shunt
A clear plastic three-way (Y) connector with barbed ends, often with a small luer port for de-airing, used with lengths of sterile tubing to join two venous cannulaKAN-yoo-luhA thin tube placed into the body or a body opening to deliver or remove fluid or air.Full entry .
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What it’s for
Used in an off-pump bidirectional Glenn to make a temporary shuntSHUNTA passage that moves blood or other fluid from one place to another, either made by a surgeon or present in the body.Full entry from the innominate vein to the right atriumAY-tree-umOne of the two upper chambers of the heart, which receive blood coming back to the heart.atri/o atrium-um noun endingFull entry . Both are cannulated through purse-strings, the cannulaKAN-yoo-luhA thin tube placed into the body or a body opening to deliver or remove fluid or air.Full entry are joined through the three-way connector and tubing and carefully de-aired, and blood from the head keeps draining to the heart while the superior vena cavasuh-PEER-ee-er VEE-nuh KAY-vuhThe large vein that carries blood from the head, neck, arms and upper chest back to the right atrium of the heart.superior uppervena veincava hollowFull entry is clamped and sewn to the pulmonary arteryPUL-muh-nair-ee AR-ter-eeThe large blood vessel that carries blood low in oxygen from the right side of the heart to the lungs.Full entry . This avoids cardiopulmonarykar-dee-oh-PUL-muh-nair-eeRelating to the heart and lungs together.cardi/o heartpulmon/o lung-ary relating toFull entry bypass.
Lengths and variants
Connectors come in tubing sizes such as 1/4 and 3/8 inch, as straight, Y and T shapes, with or without a luer port.
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