Double Cannulation:
Minatoya and colleagues have described a routine use of cannulating both the axillary artery and femoral artery during emergent acute DeBakey Type 1 dissection repair to overcome the shortcomings of either method. In their series of 88 patients, in-hospital mortality was 2% and perioperative stroke was 6%. 30. These results are comparable to studies using other cannulation strategies19, 20, 22, 27.