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Anesthesia
This French nationwide observational study evaluated the inter-rater reliability between 47 cardiac surgeons and 54 anesthetists in assessing post-cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) bleeding using 17 intraoperative video clips. The investigators utilized Gwet’s AC1 coefficient to measure...
The clinical problem addressed in this study is bleeding in patients who undergo ECMO. The authors endeavor to address the issue through a quantitative cohort study by reflecting on how...
This qualitative study explores the views and experiences of patients and staff involved in prehabilitation of elective patients undergoing cardiac surgery. This was nested within a wider randomized controlled trial...
This single center, open RCT compared patients’ satisfaction with local (LA) or general anesthesia (GA) for video-assisted thoracoscopy. Fifty patients were allocated to GA and 57 to LA. Patient satisfaction...
During the 2023 59th Annual STS Meeting, Professor Marc Gerdisch, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Franciscan Health Heart Center, was kind enough to sit down with CTSNet Associate Editor...
