Publications by authors named "Tadeusz Kolodziej"
Article Synopsis
- Early Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a multimodal approach that involves coordinated interventions throughout the pre-, intra-, and postoperative phases to enhance patient recovery.
- The strategy aims to minimize surgical stress, reduce complications, shorten hospital stays, and improve overall patient satisfaction and quality of life while cutting treatment costs.
- Most patients qualify for the ERAS program, except those needing urgent or emergency surgeries, and it requires strict adherence to protocols and teamwork, highlighting the anaesthesiologist's role as a perioperative specialist.
Objectives: No experimental study has shown that the myocardium of a remotely preconditioned patient is more resistant to a standardized ischaemic/hypoxic insult.
Methods: This was a single-centre randomized (1:1), double-blinded, sham-controlled, parallel-group study. Patients referred for elective coronary bypass surgery were allocated to either remote ischaemic preconditioning (3 cycles of 5-min ischaemia/5-min reperfusion of the right arm using a blood pressure cuff inflated to 200 mmHg) or sham intervention.
Levosimendan in patients with low ejection fraction undergoing cardiac surgery.
Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol
March 2018
Introduction: Significant impairment of left ventricular function causes low cardiac output syndrome in the immediate postoperative period in 3-14% of patients undergoing surgery, increasing the mortality 15-fold.
Aim: To assess the use of levosimendan in patients undergoing cardiac surgery in 2016.
Material And Methods: The analysis included 14 patients: 3 (21.
Perioperative care in elderly cardiac surgery patients.
Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol
December 2016
Introduction: Surgery is an extreme physiological stress for the elderly. Aging is inevitably associated with irreversible and progressive cellular degeneration. Patients above 75 years of age are characterized by impaired responses to operative stress and a very narrow safety margin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: B-type natriuretic peptides (BNP) are acknowledged markers of acute and chronic heart failure. Insufficient data exist, however, regarding their diagnostic usefulness in cardiac surgery, particularly in coronary patients.
Aim: To assess diagnostic accuracy of preoperative value of NT-proBNP level as a predictor of short-term postoperative complications in subjects undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).