Publications by authors named "Giovanni De Vuono"
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- * The study aimed to identify both traditional (like blood transfusions) and non-traditional risk factors for chronic hepatitis C specifically in the Colombian Caribbean coast.
- * Key findings indicated that blood transfusions and hospitalization history before 1994 are significant risk factors, suggesting a need for further research and cost-effectiveness analysis for screening strategies.
Objective: Of the 230 million patients undergoing major surgical procedures every year, more than 1 million will die within 30 days. Thus, any nonsurgical interventions that help reduce perioperative mortality might save thousands of lives. The authors have updated a previous consensus process to identify all the nonsurgical interventions, supported by randomized evidence, that may help reduce perioperative mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Democracy-based medicine is a combination of evidence-based medicine (systematic review), expert assessment, and worldwide voting by physicians to express their opinions and self-reported practice via the Internet. The authors applied democracy-based medicine to key trials in critical care medicine.
Design And Setting: A systematic review of literature followed by web-based voting on findings of a consensus conference.
Objective: Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are at risk of perioperative low cardiac output syndrome due to postoperative myocardial dysfunction. Myocardial dysfunction in patients undergoing cardiac surgery is a potential indication for the use of levosimendan, a calcium sensitizer with 3 beneficial cardiovascular effects (inotropic, vasodilatory, and anti-inflammatory), which appears effective in improving clinically relevant outcomes.
Design: Double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter randomized trial.