Point-of-care coagulation management during surgery with minimal invasive extracorporeal circulation (Free)   Abstract Contemporary advances in cardiac surgery have markedly improved clinical...

From minimal invasive extracorporeal circulation type I to type III: the perfusionist’s view (Free)   Abstract The main challenge of modern cardiac perfusion technologies is the achievement of...

Minimal invasive extracorporeal circulation (MiECC): the state-of-the-art in perfusion (Free)   Abstract From the dawn of open-heart surgery in the early 1950s, a sequence of significant...

Controlled automated reperfusion of the whole body after cardiac arrest (Free)   Abstract Background: Sudden circulatory arrest (CA) requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has for decades...

Skeletal and soft tissue injuries after manual and mechanical chest compressions.   Abstract AIMS To determine the rate of injuries related to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in cardiac...

"De-airing” in open heart surgery: report from the CVSAP nation-wide survey and literature review   Abstract Since the beginning of cardiac surgery, retained intracardiac air has been an...

Advanced Data Analytics for Clinical Research Part II: Application to Cardiothoracic Surgery (Free)   Abstract In the first part of this series, we introduced the tools of Big Data, including...

Advanced Data Analytics for Clinical Research Part I: What are the Tools?   Abstract The concept of Big Data is changing the way that clinical research can be performed. Cardiothoracic surgeons...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock in adult patients: predictors of in-hospital mortality and failure to be weaned from extracorporeal membrane...