Myocardial Preservation: An Opportunity for Improvement (Video)
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Intraoperative change in pEPO does not predict AKI. However, UPO2 shows promise, particularly in patients with higher risk of operative mortality. The disparity between these two markers of renal hypoxia may indicate that UPO2 reflects medullary oxygenation whereas pEPO reflects cortical oxygenation.
This study was conducted in the blood bank of the Rabta Hospital in two phases: a phase to observe transfusion acts followed by corrective actions and a phase to evaluate the impacts of these corrections on the transfusion practices.
A 65-year-old male athlete with coronary artery disease enrolled in our cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program after successful coronary artery bypass graft surgery following an acute myocardial infarction.