Search Tag: cardiac surgery
Ea23-esaic-guidelines-for-use-of-cardiac-biomarkers-in-perioperative-risk-evaluation
2023 05 Jun
The ESAIC focused guidelines on cardiac biomarkers were presented at Euroanaesthesia 2023 in Glasgow this week. There has been growing interest in utilising cardiac biomarkers in non-cardiac surgery patients. These biomarkers may be used with three separate aims. Firstly, they are used for prognosis, helping to determine how elevated levels...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
Is-levosimendan-beneficial-to-patients-undergoing-cardiac-surgery
2017 24 Oct
In patients undergoing cardiac surgery, the benefit of levosimendan in terms of survival was not shown in multicentre or in high-quality trials; however, levosimendan therapy was associated with reduced mortality in patients with preoperative ventricular systolic dysfunction, according to a new meta-analysis published in the journal Critical Care....Read more
Fibrinogen-concentrate-in-elective-complex-cardiac-surgery-a-monocentric-trial
2017 15 Sep
Presents the results from a randomised controlled trial which aimed to determine if fibrinogen concentrate infusion reduces intraoperative blood loss in cardiac surgery patients. Background Excessive bleeding is a common complication in cardiac surgery, and may result in the need for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion. Intraoperative...Read more
Levosimendan-for-haemodynamic-support-after-cardiac-surgery
2017 21 Mar
In patients who required perioperative hemodynamic support after cardiac surgery, low-dose levosimendan in addition to standard care did not result in lower 30-day mortality than placebo, according to a multicentre study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. See Also : Categorisation of Survival and Death after Cardiac Arrest Every...Read more
Mechanical-ventilation-which-patients-benefit-from-high-peep
2017 21 Mar
Among patients with hypoxaemia after cardiac surgery, the use of an intensive alveolar recruitment strategy compared with a moderate recruitment strategy resulted in less severe pulmonary complications during the hospital stay, according to a randomised clinical trial of postoperative ventilation published in JAMA. See Also : Towards Safer Ventilation...Read more
2nd-international-symposium-on-minimal-invasive-extracorporeal-circulation-technologies-miect
2016 09 Jun
The Minimal Invasive Extracorporeal Technologies International Society (MiECTiS) was founded during the 1st International Symposium on Minimal Invasive Extracorporeal Technologies which was held in Thessaloniki 13-14 of June 2014. More than 120 of founding international members cardiac surgeons, cardiac anesthesiologists, clinical perfusionists and...Read more
Cytosorbents-reports-steady-growth-in-q2-2015
2015 14 Aug
CytoSorbents Corporation, a critical care immunotherapy leader commercialising its CytoSorb® blood purification technology to reduce deadly uncontrolled inflammation in hospitalised patients around the world, reported financial and operational results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2015. Recent Financial Highlights: Product revenues...Read more
Post-operative-intubation-and-acute-kidney-injury
2014 09 Oct
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication after cardiac surgery and is generally associated with a poor prognosis. It is also an independent mortality factor in cardiac surgical patients. Cardiac surgery is typically performed under general anaesthesia with patients mechanically ventilated in the postoperative period until they have achieved...Read more
Esicm-2014-fenoldopam-after-cardiac-surgery-does-not-reduce-need-for-dialysis
2014 29 Sep
According to a study being presented at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) annual congress in Barcelona, infusion of the antihypertensive agent fenoldopam in patients with acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery does not reduce the need for renal replacement therapy (dialysis) or risk of death at 30 days. The administration of...Read more