Journal ArticleCirculation · November 5, 2024
AIM: The "2024 AHA/ACC/ACS/ASNC/HRS/SCA/SCCT/SCMR/SVM Guideline for Perioperative Cardiovascular Management for Noncardiac Surgery" provides recommendations to guide clinicians in the perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of adult patients ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Crit Care · September 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Elevated perioperative heart rate potentially causes perioperative myocardial injury because of imbalance in oxygen supply and demand. However, large multicenter studies evaluating early postoperative heart rate and major adverse cardiac and ce ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · August 2022
OBJECTIVE: Perioperative gabapentinoids in general surgery have been associated with an increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs), while resulting in equivocal pain relief. This study's aim was to examine the utilization of gabapentino ...
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Journal ArticleJ Perianesth Nurs · June 2022
PURPOSE: Over 3 million people have a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) in the United States. Without an organization-wide, standardized approach to the perioperative management of patients with CIEDs, communication errors and subsequent periods ...
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Journal ArticleJ Perianesth Nurs · August 2021
PURPOSE: Approximately 2% of surgical patients have an existing cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED). Perioperative device reprogramming requires postoperative care to ensure that device settings are restored. Electronic health record (EHR) alerts ...
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Journal ArticleJTCVS Open · June 2021
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate trends in the use of epidural analgesia and nonopioid and opioid analgesics for patients undergoing lobectomy from 2009 to 2018. METHODS: We queried the Premier database for adult patients undergoing open, video-assisted, and robotic ...
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Journal ArticleCirculation · February 2, 2021
AIM: This executive summary of the valvular heart disease guideline provides recommendations for clinicians to diagnose and manage valvular heart disease as well as supporting documentation to encourage their use. METHODS: A comprehensive literature search ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2021
Perioperative myocardial infarction is a common cause of morbidity and mortality following noncardiac surgery. A comprehensive approach to the evaluation and management of patients at risk for major adverse cardiac events in the perioperative period is ess ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Anesth · May 2020
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The lag in creatinine-mediated diagnosis of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) may be impeding the development of renoprotection therapies. Postoperative renal resistive index (RRI) measured by transabdominal Doppler ultr ...
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Journal ArticleJ Surg Res · October 2019
BACKGROUND: Sepsis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality after surgery. Most studies regarding sepsis do not differentiate between patients who have had recent surgery and those without. Few data exist regarding the risk factors for poor outcomes i ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Anaesth · May 2019
BACKGROUND: Perioperative arterial blood pressure management is a physiologically complex challenge influenced by multiple factors. METHODS: A multidisciplinary, international working subgroup of the Third Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) consensus ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Anaesth · May 2019
BACKGROUND: Postoperative hypotension and hypertension are frequent events associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes. However, proper assessment and management is often poorly understood. As a part of the PeriOperative Quality Improvement (POQI) 3 ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Anaesth · May 2019
BACKGROUND: A multidisciplinary international working subgroup of the third Perioperative Quality Initiative consensus meeting appraised the evidence on the influence of preoperative arterial blood pressure and community cardiovascular medications on perio ...
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Journal ArticleBr J Anaesth · May 2019
BACKGROUND: Intraoperative mortality is now rare, but death within 30 days of surgery remains surprisingly common. Perioperative myocardial infarction is associated with a remarkably high mortality. There are strong associations between hypotension and myo ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Thorac Surg · July 2018
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common serious complication after cardiac surgery. Doppler-determined renal resistive index (RRI) is a promising early AKI biomarker in this population. However, the relationship between aortic valve pathology (in ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Transplant · June 2018
Changes in heart transplantation (HT) donor and recipient demographics may influence the incidence of primary graft dysfunction (PGD). We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate PGD incidence, trends, and associated risk factors by analyzing consecutiv ...
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Journal ArticleAnesth Analg · February 2018
Health care delivery in the United States continues to balance on the tight rope that connects its transition from volume to value. Value in economic terms can be defined as the amount something exceeds its commodity price and is determined by extraordinar ...
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Journal ArticleAnaesthesia · May 2017
A consistent message within critical care publications has been that a restrictive transfusion strategy is non-inferior, and possibly superior, to a liberal strategy for stable, non-bleeding critically ill patients. Translation into clinical practice has, ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Opin Anaesthesiol · June 2015
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The current review will address key topics and recommendations of the recent 2014 update of the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association clinical practice guideline for the perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent Anesthesiology Reports · September 1, 2013
Cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) provide lifesaving support and an improved quality of life to millions of patients. With these patients presenting for elective, urgent, and emergent surgeries, anesthesiologists and other perioperative ...
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Journal Article · September 1, 2012
Hybrid coronary revascularization combines coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for coronary artery disease. Surgical grafting is reserved for revascularization of the left anterior descending (LAD) a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · August 2010
OBJECTIVE: In this study, the therapeutic use of pacing pulmonary artery catheters in association with minimally invasive cardiac surgery was evaluated. DESIGN: A retrospective study. SETTINGS: A single institutional university hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Two ...
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Journal ArticleJ Heart Valve Dis · March 2010
BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY: The study aim was to determine the safety and benefits of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery without aortic cross-clamping for mitral valve surgery after previous cardiac surgery. METHODS: Between January 2006 and Augu ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2009
Hybrid coronary revascularization combines coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for coronary artery disease. Surgical grafting is reserved for revascularization of the left anterior descending (LAD) a ...
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Journal ArticleChest · April 2000
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine the etiology and the clinical and radiographic predictors of the etiology of pulmonary nodules in a group of HIV-infected patients. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis. SETTING: A large urban hospital in San Francisco, CA. PATIENT ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · February 2000
PURPOSE: To determine whether the computed tomographic (CT) appearances of multiple pulmonary nodules in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) can help differentiate the potential infectious and neoplastic causes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: T ...
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