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Optimizing Intraoperative Cerebral Oxygen Delivery Using Noninvasive Cerebral Oximetry Decreases the Incidence of Stroke for Cardiac Surgical Patients
The treatment group, which underwent all cardiac surgeries with optimized cerebral oxygen delivery using cerebral oximetry monitoring, demonstrated a signifi- cantly lower incidence of permanent stroke. Because our study is retrospective, a prospective randomized trial is warranted.
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Predonation of Autologous Blood Reduces Perioperative Allogenic Transfusion Requirement In Grown-up Patients With Congenital Heart Disease
To investigate the efficacy of autologous blood predonation (ABP), we focussed on a homogeneous subgroup of patients, with right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction.
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