Myocardial Protection: Ripe For A Guideline (Video)
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Preoperative eGFR is the strongest predictor of postoperative AKI in individuals undergoing nonemergent cardiac surgery. A practical scorecard incorporating preoperative predictors of AKI may allow informed decision‐making and predict AKI following nonemergent cardiac surgery.
Contact of blood with the pericardial cavity and surgical wound has been advocated as the main trigger, but suction forces are also considered as a possible contributor. We thus designed a study to identify the possible causes involved in this activation.
Jorge Molina discusses the results of the 2013 pediatric perfusion survey (28:38 minutes).