Prada, Gabriel Vieillard-Baron, Antoine Martin, Archer K Hernandez, Antonio Mookadam, Farouk Ramakrishna, Harish Diaz-Gomez, Jose L
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Today, proficiency in cardiopulmonary ultrasound is considered essential for anesthesiologists and critical care physicians. Conventional 2-dimensional images, however, do not permit optimal characterization of specific conditions (eg, diaphragmatic paralysis, major atelectasis, and pneumothorax) that may have relevant clinical implications in crit...
Valchanov, Kamen Salaunkey, Kiran Parmar, Jas
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Sikachi, Rutuja R Anca, Diana
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Increased survival with left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) has led to a large number of patients with LVADs presenting for noncardiac surgeries (NCS). With studies showing that a trained noncardiac anesthesiologist can safely manage these patients when they present for NCS, it is vital that all anesthesiologists understand the LVAD physiology a...
Boltunova, Alina Bailey, Caryl Weinberg, Roniel Ma, Xiaoyue Thalappillil, Richard Tam, Christopher W White, Robert S
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
To determine the effect of preoperative opioid use disorder (OUD) on postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and heart valve surgery. Retrospective, observational study using data from the State Inpatient Database and the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Inpatient data from Florida, California, N...
Rozental, Olga Thalappillil, Richard White, Robert S Kumar, Shreyajit R Tam, Christopher W
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Lu, Chao Wei, Jinfeng Cai, Bin Liang, Jiexian Wang, Sheng
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
The aim of the present study was to explore the etiology and risk factors of extubation failure (ExF) in low birth weight (LBW) infants undergoing congenital heart surgery. Retrospective, comparative study. A Cantonese cardiac center in China. The cases of all LBW infants undergoing congenital heart surgery admitted to the authors' neonatal intensi...
Privratsky, Jamie R Li, Yi-Ju Haynes, Carol Podgoreanu, Mihai Mathew, Joseph Shah, Svati H Stafford-Smith, Mark
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a complication of cardiac surgery that is considerably more common in African Americans (1.5-fold). Although homozygous status for apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk alleles is associated with chronic kidney disease in individuals of African ancestry, whether these coding variants confer AKI risk is unknown. The present stu...
Kiefer, Jessie J Rock, Peter Augoustides, John G Mazzeffi, Michael A
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Essandoh, Michael
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Hoyler, Marguerite M Feng, T Robert Ma, Xiaoyue Rong, Lisa Q Avgerinos, Dimitrios V Tam, Christopher W White, Robert S
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
To characterize the effects markers of socioeconomic status (SES), including race and ethnicity, health insurance status, and median household income by zip code on in-patient mortality after cardiac valve surgery. Retrospective cohort study of adult valve surgery patients included in the State Inpatient Databases and Healthcare Cost and Utilizatio...