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State of the Art Blood Management in Cardiac Surgery
Blood has been described as the most precious and personal substance in the world (1), and caregivers focused on cardiac surgery issues now know that the current direction today in cardiac surgery is to actively move away from transfusing donor “allogeneic” blood products, and towards improved methods of keeping and saving the patient’s own autologous blood.
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Impact of Monitoring Cerebral Oxygen Saturation on the Outcome of Patients Undergoing Open Heart Surgery
We studied the usefulness of regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO 2 ) monitoring during cardiopulmonary bypass
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Detection of Optimal PEEP for Equal Distribution of Tidal Volume by Volumetric Capnography and Electrical Impedance Tomography During Decreasing Levels of PEEP in Post Cardiac-Surgery Patients
In this study we aimed to compare the ability of volumetric capnography and electrical impedance tomography (EIT) in detecting homogenous ventilation for prevention of ventilator-induced lung injury In postoperative cardiac patients.
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