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Annals of thoracic surgery short reports

BACKGROUND: Intraoperative physiologic parameters could offer predictive utility in evaluating risk of adverse postoperative events yet are not included in current standard risk models. This study examined whether the inclusion of continuous intraope...

BACKGROUND: Cardiac surgery patients are at increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE). Prevention is the most critical strategy to reduce VTE-associated morbidity and death. However, there is a lack of data on the optimal approach to VTE prophy...

BACKGROUND: Lidocaine in del Nido cardioplegia solution prolongs the refractory period of cardiomyocytes, yielding a longer arrest per dose. Serum lidocaine concentrations >8 mg/L are associated with seizure and cardiotoxicity. We evaluated serum lid...