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...

Click here to access the article. Abstract: Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-A ECMO) is increasingly used to treat refractory cardiogenic shock, despite randomized clinical...

Click here to access the article. Background: Skin mottling is a common manifestation of peripheral tissue hypoperfusion, and its severity can be described using the skin mottling score (SMS)....

Click here to access the article. Abstract: Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is a common technique in cardiac surgery but is associated with acute kidney injury (AKI), which carries considerable...

Click here to access the article. Background: Nitric Oxide (NO) is a naturally occurring modulator of inflammation found in the human body. Several studies in the pediatric cardiothoracic...

Click here to access the article. Objective: Professional standards recommend stopping cardiotomy suction at the termination of cardiopulmonary bypass before protamine administration based on...