Search Tag: cardiac surgery
2024 26 Aug
Researchers at Mass General Brigham found that women have a lower risk of developing postoperative atrial fibrillation (poAF) after surgery compared to men but face a higher risk of long-term mortality once poAF occurs. The study is published in JAMA. The objective of the research was to identify the protective factors that reduce the incidence...Read more
2024 17 May
Haemodynamic instability and shock are a potential everyday challenge for intensivists and anaesthesiologists. Understanding the underlying cause is pivotal for an appropriate and successful treatment. Systolic motion of the anterior mitral valve leaflet towards the left ventricular outflow tract (SAM) is a possible insidious mechanism of low...Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2017 05 May
The Sub-saharan African region faces many healthcare challenges including a shortage of doctors and specialists, inadequate access to necessary medications and patient limitations. Since the Rwandan genocide in 1994, the region's healthcare system has been severely crippled. Even today, Rwanda has only one doctor for every 10,500 patients. RHD patients...Read more
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
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
2017 20 Mar
Patients adhering to prescribed statin medication before heart surgery may significantly improve survival following the operation, according to new research published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Patients stop taking certain medications before heart surgery to avoid any adverse health effects. But this study shows that patients should continue...Read more
2017 14 Jul
The Congress will provide the opportunity for a comprehensive overview of the latest research developments in cardiovascular medicine, primarily in the areas of molecular biology, coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias and cardiac surgery. Plans for this CME meeting are progressing extremely well. Many distinguished cardiologists...Read more
2016 26 Jul
An article published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery identifies a list of 17 patient characteristics that include age, race, smoking habits, and white blood cell count among others, that are associated with developing pneumonia after cardiac surgery. Pneumonia is the most prevalent infection after such a surgery and often leads to longer hospital...Read more
2016 10 May
A recent study just published in JAMA Cardiology reveals that people who have slow gait speed prior to open heart surgery have an increased risk of death following the procedure. Gait speed is a common test that that is used to screen individuals for frailty. It assesses how long a person takes to walk about 5 meters or 16.4 feet at a comfortable...Read more