Intraoperative high and low blood pressures are not associated with delirium after cardiac surgery: A retrospective cohort study.

Study Objective: To evaluate the associations between high and low intraoperative time-weighted average mean arterial pressures before, during and after cardiopulmonary bypass on postoperative delirium.

Design: Single center retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Operating rooms and postoperative care units.

Therapeutic Dilemma: Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Patient with Traumatic Hepatic and Mesenteric Injuries: A Case Report.

ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in a trauma patient with solid abdominal organ or vascular injuries can present complex diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Evidence for managing such demanding cases is scarce, and isolated case reports remain the source of information in treating these patients. We present a patient with traumatic mesenteric and hepatic injuries who developed acute STEMI in the immediate postoperative period.

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Epidemiology and Long-Term Outcomes in Thoracic Transplantation.

Over the past five decades, outcomes for lung transplantation have significantly improved in the early post-operative period, such that lung transplant is now the gold standard treatment for end-stage respiratory disease. The major limitation that impacts lung transplant survival rates is the development of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD). CLAD affects around 50% of lung transplant recipients within five years of transplantation.

Efficacy and Safety of Sugammadex to Shorten Time-to-Extubation Following Cardiac Surgery: A Single-Center Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial.

Unlabelled: Residual neuromuscular blockade (NMB) is an important and modifiable factor associated with prolonged mechanical ventilation after cardiac surgery. Studies evaluating the use of sugammadex for residual NMB reversal in the post-cardiac surgery ICU setting are lacking. We conducted a randomized trial to determine the efficacy of sugammadex in reducing time to extubation in patients admitted to the ICU after cardiac surgery.

Comparison of Awareness of Patient Parameters between Two Groups of Caregivers in Intensive Care Unit.

Aim Of The Study: The overlap in the scope of duties performed by two core groups of Intensive Care Unit caregivers, the doctors and nurses may lead to gaps in awareness of patient-related parameters among them. Our study tested the hypothesis that there is no difference in the awareness of patient-related parameters between the two study groups (doctors and nurses).

Materials And Methods: A questionnaire-based study, incorporating various aspects of a patient's medical care was designed.

Use of single-lumen tube for minimally invasive and hybrid esophagectomies with prone thoracoscopic dissection: case series.

Minimally invasive and hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) is a technically challenging procedure. Anesthesia for the same is equally challenging due to special requirements of the video-assisted thoracoscopic technique used and shared operative and respiratory fields. Standard ventilatory strategy for this kind of surgery has been 1-lung ventilation with the help of a double-lumen tube.

Beware of "curare cleft" like changes during unilateral capnothorax.

Capnography is a standard monitoring tool during general anaesthesia. Diaphragmatic movement with the weaning of muscle relaxant effect produces the characteristic "curare cleft" on capnography. Various artefacts can mimick this trace intraoperatively.

An unusual case of sudden collapse in the immediate postoperative period in a young healthy female with myxofibroma of the maxilla.

Benign myxofibromas of heart are well known to cause systemic inflammatory mediator release causing multiple complications ranging from fever and widespread effusions to DIC and shock. We report that in a particular case of maxillary myxofibroma, a shock-like state and widespread serous cavities effusion presented in the immediate postoperative period. The occurrence was possibly due to release of inflammatory mediators by the tumour, disseminated during tumour resection causing diffuse capillary leak, precipitated by fluid resuscitation, leading to decrease in plasma oncotic pressure.