Dextran- Versus Crystalloid-Based Prime in Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Randomized Pilot Study   Abstract Background The optimum priming fluid for the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) circuit is...

Mortality Prediction After Cardiac Surgery: Higgins’ Intensive Care Unit Admission Score Revisited   Abstract Background This study was performed to develop and validate a cardiac surgical...

Gas exchange calculation may estimate changes in pulmonary blood flow during veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a porcine model   Abstract Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane...

Cardiac Surgery During Pregnancy Abstract The need for cardiac surgery during pregnancy is rare. Only 1% to 4% of pregnancies are complicated by maternal cardiac disease and most of these can be...

Management of Challenging Cardiopulmonary Bypass Separation   Abstract   SEPARATION from cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) after cardiac surgery is a progressive transition from full mechanical...

Convalescent plasma transfusion for the treatment of COVID‐19: Systematic review   Abstract The recent emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has reassessed the usefulness of...

Restarting with Covid-19: Seven Key Action Items   Abstract Summary After quickly redeploying resources to take on the Covid-19 crisis, leaders now need to de-deploy staff, but not to the way...

Anesthesia and COVID-19: What We Should Know and What We Should Do   Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), was...

Clinical and Laboratory Predictors of In-hospital Mortality in Patients With Coronavirus Disease-2019: A Cohort Study in Wuhan, China   Abstract Background This study aimed to develop...