A kit and a system for providing long term protection for a patients vascular system against damage from debris produced in the patients ascending aorta as a result of a medical procedure involving the patients heart. The kit and the system include an aortic filter assembly constructed to block debris in the patients aorta while allowing blood flow through the aorta. The kit includes a shunt adapted to be implanted to form a flow path between an artery downstream of the debris removal tube and a vein and a venous filter adapted to be placed in the vein downstream of the shunt to collect debris flowing from said shunt. The system includes a heart-lung machine.
