Cardiac Surgery
Risk stratification for no cardiac surgery
... the associated surgical subtypes. Data from over 10 million cases analysed found a 3% incidence which translated into 150 000 events annually with higher rates in vascular, thoracic and transplant surgery. The ...
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Point-of-Care Testing of Hemostasis in Cardiac Surgery
... during cardiac surgery ...following cardiac surgery is controversial, because other studies have found weak or no correlation between PACT values and blood loss after CPB ...
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Preoperatory Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
... Despite not having found statistically significant relationships, we highlight that the fact of being a woman would suppose a higher level of anxiety, as well as the result obtained in Spain by Diez-Alvarez [9] and in ...
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The impact of hydroxyethyl starches in cardiac surgery: a meta analysis
... cardiac surgery. They assessed safety parameters until 28 days after surgery and monitored highly sensitive markers of renal function, but they could not detect significant differences between ...
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Neurodevelopmental Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery in Infancy
... undergoing surgery in infancy have more problems with reasoning, learning, executive function, inattention and impulsive behavior, language skills, and social skills compared with peers without ...of ...
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Cardiac Surgery in Octogenarians and Beyond: Single Center Experience
... increasing cardiac operations in this ...of cardiac surgery on octoge- narians and beyond concerning postoperative morbidities and ...heart surgery in our hospital between 2001 to 2009 were ...
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Is quality of life post cardiac surgery overestimated?
... undergoing cardiac surgery at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center (UMCN) – we identified, after exclusion of pa- tients with a transcatheter aortic valve implantation, 2923 patients who underwent ...
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Physiotherapy following cardiac surgery: Program comparison
... of cardiac rehabilitation is to return the patients' daily activities and social environment as quickly as possible, at the same time preserving human functioning in high physical and psychological ...during ...
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Topical thrombin preparations and their use in cardiac surgery
... in cardiac surgery patients, especially when considering the increased risk of re-exposure either at the time of surgery or during future surgical proce- dures, may justify the use of newer nonbovine ...
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Impact of perioperative infarcts after cardiac surgery
... after Cardiac Surgery: 15 Trail Making Tests (parts A and B) 16 and the Grooved Pegboard Test 17 . In addition, the Wechsler Memory Scale-Third Edition (WMS-III) 18 and Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of ...
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Development of the Post Cardiac Surgery (POCAS) prognostic score
... after cardiac surgery would allow for the estab- lishment of a risk model with greater accuracy than that of the scales that had used preoperative risk factors, such as the additive and logistic EuroSCOREs ...
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Microvascular reactivity and clinical outcomes in cardiac surgery
... undergoing cardiac surgery. This study used data from the heart surgery registry at Seoul National University ...undergoing cardiac and thoracic aor- tic surgeries at Seoul National University ...
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Deep sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery
... after cardiac surgery has been variously reported as between ...adult cardiac surgical patients ...after cardiac surgery was ...
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Usefulness of Del Nido cardioplegia in adult cardiac surgery.
... ADULT CARDIAC SURGERY Del Nido cardioplegia is a type of cardioplegic solution widely used for complex congenital paediatric cardiac ...adult cardiac surgery is extended ...adult ...
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Monitoring performance of cardiac surgery: the SCTS governance programme
... was that patients must be able to see information about the relative performance of individual consultants operating within hospitals. The Society of Cardiotho- racic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland therefore ...
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Anti Inflammatory Effects of Statins in Cardiac Surgery Patients
... Clinical outcome data was collected from 90 patients re- cruited as a part of the neutrophil migration study and an additional 61 patients were recruited consecutively who were admitted for planned cardiac ...
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Preoperative risk factors of malnutrition for cardiac surgery patients
... Cardiac surgery patients are in a poor nutrition al state because the body composition is altered by the changes occurring in acute and chronic dis ease ...fore surgery reduces physical activity ...
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Blood Brain Barrier Disruption after Cardiac Surgery
... From the section on Stroke Diagnostics and Therapeutics (J.G.M., L.L.L., L.A.D., S.W.), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland; Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (J.G.M., K.A.H.), ...
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The effect of preoperative liver dysfunction on cardiac surgery outcomes
... As the population ages the number of people with LD who will require adult cardiac surgery will increase (Fig. 1). Unfortunately, there is unclear recommenda- tions for surgery in the presence of LD ...
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Role of nutrition support in adult cardiac surgery: a consensus statement from an International Multidisciplinary Expert Group on Nutrition in Cardiac Surgery
... in cardiac surgery Ultrasound of the quadriceps muscle is an easy-to-use and readily available tool to measure muscle mass and deter- mine changes in muscle and fat tissue ...in cardiac patients ...
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