Patient Blood Management: Effectiveness and Future Potential
The authors hypothesized that “Patient Blood Management will decrease the use of allogeneic erythrocyte transfusion and its cost and adverse sequelae significantly.” Currently, 12 yr later, we can conclude this is indeed the case.
Platelet Activity Measured by VerifyNow® Aspirin Sensitivity Test Identifies Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Patients at Increased Risk for Postoperative Bleeding and Transfusion
VerifyNow® Aspirin is able to preoperatively identify aspirin hyper-responders at an increased risk of bleeding and subsequent transfusion in the context of coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support for Postcardiotomy Cardiogenic Shock in Adult Patients: Predictors of In-Hospital Mortality and Failure to be Weaned from Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Our data suggest a reevaluation of therapeutic strategies after 60 h and again after 130 h of ECMO support.
Advanced Data Analytics for Clinical Research Part I: What are the Tools?
As cardiothoracic surgeons seek ways to innovate, novel approaches to data acquisition and analysis enable a more rigorous level of investigatory efforts.
Advanced Data Analytics for Clinical Research Part II: Application to Cardiothoracic Surgery
We will explain our processes in developing the research question, barriers to achieving the research goals using traditional research methods, tools used to overcome the barriers, and the research findings.