ThoracicSurgery

New data will be presented on empagliflozin in patients with diabetes, and results from trials of atorvastatin and kidney injury after cardiac surgery will be released.  

Mortality after cardiac surgery in UK specialist centres is determined overwhelmingly by patient risk factors rather than by which health professionals or hospitals provide their care, research findings have shown.  

CICM Second Part Exam Practice SAQs: tumour lysis syndrome data interpretation, haematological malignancy, ammonia and hyperammonaemia, cardiac arrest post-cardiac surgery  

Acute kidney injury occurs is nearly one third of patients undergoing heart surgery with prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass, but a new study suggests the administration of nitric oxide might be protective.  

How’s this for thinking outside the box in the approach to the difficult airway!? Difficult airway algorithms and advanced management options for difficult airways mostly concentrate on getting into the trachea. But what happens if getting into the trachea is the easy bit? What happens if that’s where you run into a dead end? How do you manage the crashing airway where the problem lies just after the end of your tube? I stumbled across this case report published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery this year which provides an elegant solution to managing a near total tracheal occlusion.  

Could certain factors predict the onset of postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery?  

This editorial explores a newly developed severity of illness scoring system for children admitted to the ICU following cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease.  

Patients with diabetes have over a 50% increased risk of surgical site infection and this remained the case even after controlling for hyperglycemia. The highest risk was seen for cardiac surgery.  

Children with congenital heart disease may experience impairment of neurocognitive skills, including executive functions, attention, and memory. This study examined the extent of these deficits.  

Does sevoflurane or propofol exhibit more favorable cardioprotective effects during cardiac surgery?  

Find out how the drainage of pleural effusions after cardiac surgery may impact pulmonary function in patients requiring mechanical ventilation.  

Receiving two home visits by a cardiac surgery physician assistant (PA) in the week after hospital discharge for cardiac surgery is associated with a significant reduction in readmission rates and cost savings, according to new research.  

Controversies over the ROCKET AF trial and Robert Califf's nomination for FDA commissioner, the treatment of ACS, and blood glucose control after cardiac surgery are discussed in this week's podcast.  

Yale psychologist Susan Nolen-Hoeksema died Jan. 2. in Yale-New Haven Hospital, following heart surgery associated with a blood infection. She was 53 years old.  

Any statin use "as nephroprotective agents in patients naive to statin treatment undergoing cardiac surgery should now be abandoned," writes an observer, based on the randomized trial.  

Unpublished trials, new CMS rules, statins after cardiac surgery, sudden death in the young, macrolide antibiotics, and FDA Commissioner Dr Robert Califf are discussed this week.  

Taking aspirin before coronary artery surgery is not associated with an increased risk of death, bleeding, or thrombotic complications, a randomised trial1 has shown. The trial showed that there was no need for patients taking aspirin to stop before cardiac surgery.  

Taking aspirin before coronary artery surgery is not associated with an increased risk of death, bleeding, or thrombotic complications, a randomised trial1 has shown. The trial showed that there was no need for patients taking aspirin to stop before cardiac surgery.  

Taking aspirin before coronary artery surgery is not associated with an increased risk of death, bleeding, or thrombotic complications, a randomised trial1 has shown. The trial showed that there was no need for patients taking aspirin to stop before cardiac surgery.  

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has been told to submit weekly returns on its cardiac surgery mortality after more patients died there than would have been expected.