Publications by authors named "Leila D N Ortiz"
Background: despite the increasingly careful attempts to reduce perioperative risks, pulmonary complications following surgery are still very common, leading to longer length of hospital stays or death.
Objective: to describe the incidence of pulmonary complications and identify their association with duration of extracorporeal circulation (ECC), surgery and ischemia, number of bypass grafts performed, location of drains and length of drainage following myocardial revascularization (MRV).
Methods: this contemporaneous cohort consisted of 202 patients undergoing elective myocardial revascularization (MRV) with saphenous vein graft and internal mammary artery graft and ECC, at a referral university cardiology hospital in Southern Brazil, from April 2006 to November 2007.
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluated the respiratory and clinical outcomes of 108 patients undergoing elective CABG surgery at a cardiology hospital in South Brazil.
- Significant decreases in lung function measures (FEV1 and FVC) and ventilatory muscle strength were noted from preoperative assessments to the sixth day post-surgery.
- The results indicated a higher incidence of pulmonary complications on the sixth postoperative day compared to the first day, highlighting the need for monitoring and management of respiratory function after CABG surgery.