Incident Reporting in Perfusion: Attitudes and Efficacy in Improving Health Care Quality (EP Video)

Lidocaine blocks the cardioprotection induced by ischaemic preconditioning only at supratherapeutic concentrations.

This paper gives a review of recent numerical investigations of various configurations of coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG). In addition, the paper ends with a summary of the findings and the future directions.

In the present study, pulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) was investigated in terms of the effects on cytokines, endothelin, catecholamine, and pulmonary and renal functions.