Click here to access the article. Highlights A total of 7 studies evaluated outcomes of Impella versus IABP in patients with cardiogenic shock on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane...

Click here to access the article. Objective: To evaluate and synthesise the factors determining patient safety culture in hospitals.

Click here to access the article. Background: Since 2013, the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) at Children's National has conducted annual extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cardiopulmonary...

Click here to access the article. The impact of blood pressure targets and surgical approach (laparoscopic or open) on continuous urinary oxygenation (PuO2), a validated surrogate of renal...

Click here to access the article. Abstract: We present historical accounts of congenital heart surgery since the early 1900s, as our specialty evolved from individual heroic efforts into an...

Click here to access the article. Objective: Strategies for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in patients undergoing cardiac surgery have been traditionally anchored to hemoglobin (Hb) targets....

Click here to access the article. Objectives: To study the quantitative potency of plasma albumin on cardioprotection in terms of creatinine kinase-myocardial band mass (CK-MBm) in on-pump...

Click here to access the article. Background: The association between tissue oxygenation with postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in adult patients undergoing multiple valve surgery has not...

Click here to access the article. Background: Heparin rebound is a common observed phenomenon after cardiac surgery with CPB and is associated with increased postoperative blood loss. However,...