Science news articles about 'cardiac surgery patients'

... of postoperative cognitive decline among cardiac surgery patients” (Slater et. al). However, ... .  Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) surgery, continues to produce clinical results demonstrating ...

... The study involved nearly 9,000 patients and showed that disturbed blood sugar control occurred ... study might apply also to all those non-cardiac surgery patients admitted for any other major surgical ...

... post-CABG heart attacks. An earlier study of the prognostic role of cTnT in cardiac surgery patients found that extreme elevations of the enzyme strongly predicted the risk of complications and ...

... measured up to six months post transfusion which is consistent with previous reports in cardiac surgery patients. Philip Spinella and Christopher Carroll, both pediatric intensivists from Connecticut ...

... more vulnerable for genetic reasons or because of how their brains react to surgery or anesthesia. They also excluded cardiac surgery patients from this study because of elevated stroke risk and other ...

... to prevent blood loss during heart surgery. The trial, published in the New England Journal ... 2,000 high-risk cardiac surgery patients and more than 100 cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, pharmacists ...

... in Germany compared outcomes in 232 cardiac surgery patients who received standard postoperative treatment, ... every 4 hours, and 236 cardiac surgery patients who received prophylactic CPAP for at least ...

... blood". The researchers sought to assess hospital variation in blood use and outcomes in cardiac surgery patients, to see if unnecessary blood transfusions may be putting the safety of some ...