Search Tag: cardiac surgery
Pancreatic Stone Protein for Predicting Perioperative Infection in Cardiac Surgery
2022 06 Dec
According to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC), sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. The organ dysfunction may be transitory in some patients, but complications can always occur in others. For example, a patient who has undergone cardiac surgery can present postoperative cardiac dysfunction,... Read more
Perioperative Dexmedetomidine and Postoperative Delirium
2021 21 Sep
Delirium is very common in patients who undergo major cardiac and non-cardiac surgery. Delirium is associated with postoperative mortality, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, increased length of stay in the hospital and postoperative complications and morbidity. A study was conducted to investigate the effect of perioperative administration of... Read more
Promising Techniques in Sepsis After Cardiac Surgery
2020 14 Sep
The purpose of this article is to give an up-to-date, comprehensive review on the utilisation of extracorporeal blood purification techniques and immunostimulation in septic patients after cardiac surgery. Introduction Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening state caused by an infection and an inadequate, dysregulated host immune... Read more
Vitamin D deficiency in ICU patients
2019 30 May
A review on the role of vitamin D in a well-defined setting of critically ill patients: patients undergoing cardiac surgery and organ transplantation, and the potential benefit of vitamin D supplementation. Vitamin D research has experienced a true hype in all fields of medicine in the last decades. In critical illness, this increased... Read more
#ISICEM19: Prof. Giovanni Landoni presents results of the MYRIAD Trial
2019 20 Mar
Professor Giovanni Landoni, the Head of Research, Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, presented the results of the MYRIAD trial at the 39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine . The study, ' Volatile anesthetics versus total intravenous anesthesia for cardiac surgery... Read more