Click here to access the article. Objective: Lower-limb ischemia is a complication of minimally invasive cardiac surgery with femoral cannulation. Herein, we verified our strategy using distal...

Click here to access the article. Abstract: Heart transplantation utilizing deceased after circulatory death (DCD) donors has expanded the donor pool through the use of ex vivo normothermic...

Click here to access the article. Excerpt: It is broadly recognised that everyone has a role in making healthcare safe, yet hospitals continue to struggle with incorporating frontline...

Click here to access the article. Introduction: Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the use of recombinant Anti-Thrombin III (AT-III) administration during neonatal and...

Click here to access the article. Introduction: Retrograde Autologous Priming (RAP) of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) circuits is an effective way to reduce prime volume, commonly through the...

Click here to access the article. Background: Organizational factors may influence surgical outcomes, regardless of extensively studied factors such as patient preoperative risk and surgical...

Click here to access the article. Background: Primary malignant cardiac tumors are rare in clinic, and surgical resection under cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) remains the main treatment. The...

Click here to access the article. Background: Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCABG) has a high incidence of postoperative systemic inflammation response syndrome (SIRS), and...

Click here to access the article. Introduction: By using a novel survey our study aimed to assess the challenges ECMO and Critical Care (CC) teams face when initiating and managing patient's...