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The Impact of Acute Kidney Injury by Serum Creatinine or Urine Output Criteria on Major Adverse Kidney Events in Cardiac Surgery Patients

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Common Inflammatory Markers After Cardiac Surgery in Infants and Their Relation to Blood Stream Sepsis

While leucocyte count, platelet count and C-Reactive Protein emerged as useful markers of post-operative inflammatory response and reaction to Cardiopulmonary Bypass, they proved unsatisfactory predictors of early post-operative sepsis.

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Platelet Concentrates, from Whole Blood or Collected by Apheresis

The quality and characteristics of platelets during storage are affected by a number of factors, such as anticoagulant, centrifugation and processing after collection, and pre- or post storage pooling, but when comparing literature on the various methods, most differences balance out.

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Intraoperative Cardiac Arrest and Mortality in Trauma Patients. A 14-yr Survey from a Brazilian Tertiary Teaching Hospital

Little information on the factors influencing intraoperative cardiac arrest and its outcomes in trauma patients is available. This survey evaluated the associated factors and outcomes of intraoperative cardiac arrest in trauma patients in a Brazilian teaching hospital between 1996 and 2009.

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