Immediate postoperative care of cardiac surgical patients
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular AnesthesiaPublished 1 August 1996
Thomas L. Higgins, Jean‐Pierre Yared, Thomas Ryan
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Anesthetic care of the cardiac surgery patient is a continuum, beginning with the preoperative visit and ending when the patient is ambulatory and breathing well on the postoperative floor.
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Anesthetic care of the cardiac surgery patient is a continuum, beginning with the preoperative visit and ending when the patient is ambulatory and breathing well on the postoperative floor. Anesthesiologists are well-suited to provide postoperative care because the respiratory and cardiovascular management techniques are an extension of OR management. Attention to details is as important in the ICU as in the OR and offers the opportunity to forestall or reduce morbidity.
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Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryThe predictive value of serum enzymes for perioperative myocardial infarction after cardiac operations
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It is demonstrated that no combination of enzyme activity changes after operation can completely discriminate all patients with perioperative myocardial infarction from those without, Nonetheless, measurement of creatine kinase MB activity provide 96% accuracy for diagnosing infarctions at a prevalence of 10%.
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