Conventional cardiovascular monitoring may not detect tissue hypoxia, and conventional
cardiovascular support aiming at global hemodynamics may not restore tissue oxygenation …

Background and Purpose—As a result of advances in surgical, anesthetic, and medical
management, cardiac surgery can now be performed on older, sicker patients, some of …

BACKGROUND: Disruptions in surgical flow have the potential to increase the occurrence of
surgical errors; however, little is known about the frequency and nature of surgical flow …

Background—Most survival prediction models for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery
are limited to in-hospital or 30-day end points. We estimate a long-term survival model using …

Now in its sixth edition, Robert M. Bojar's Manual of Perioperative Care in Adult Cardiac
Surgery remains the go-to practical guide for all of those involved in the care of the cardiac …

This review will focus on inhalational anesthetic neuroprotection during cerebral ischemia
and inhalational anesthetic preconditioning before ischemic brain injury. The limitations and …

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a rapidly evolving safe method with
decreasing incidence of perioperative stroke. There is a void in literature concerning the …

Objectives We evaluated the influence of transit-time flow measurement with epicardial and
epiaortic high-frequency ultrasound in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting …

OBJECTIVE: Previous studies of the epidemiology of stroke in patients undergoing cardiac
surgery have been based primarily on patients having coronary bypass surgery and …

Background and Purpose—The risk of stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is
known to increase dramatically with age. During recent years, the age of patients operated …