Click here to access the article. Introduction: Due to the risk of thrombosis, nearly all children supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) receive systemic anticoagulation....

Click here to access the article. Over the past decade, veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) has expanded rapidly as a salvage strategy to provide temporary circulatory...

Click here to access the article. Cardiac surgery (CS) with extracorporeal circulation (ECC), induces intense oxidative stress (OS) and systemic inflammatory response (SIR), which may...

Click here to access the article. Background: Vasoplegia is common after cardiac surgery, is associated with hyperreninemia, and can lead to acute kidney stress. We aimed to conduct a pilot...

Click here to access the article. Objectives: To investigate the effect of retrograde autologous priming (RAP) on coagulation function using rotation thromboelastometry (ROTEM) in patients...

Click here to access the article. Section snippet Anticoagulation for Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation: Recently, the ARTESIA study addressed this question in a randomized trial of 4,012...

Click here to access the article. Nowadays, the necessity of having a cardioplegia circuit capable of being adapted in order to administer different types of cardioplegia is strategically...

Click here to access the article. Abstract: Anticoagulation is an essential component of optimal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) management. Unfractionated heparin is still the...

Click here to access the article. Molecular oxygen is typically delivered to patients via oxygen inhalation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), potentially resulting in systemic...