First patient in PrimECC study included
PrimECC® is a CE-marked and patent-protected product, developed to prime the heart-lung machine before open heart surgery. A previous “proof of concept” study performed using PrimECC® has shown interesting clinical results. The study that has now been started is intended to expand the clinical documentation for PrimECC® and will include a total of 80 patients.Several hundred thousand heart operations are performed in the world each year using a heart-lung machine and the ‘proof of concept’ study performed using PrimECC® indicates that the patient has an improved fluid balance after the