Click here to access the article. Improving the safety of patient care is a top priority in the perioperative environment in order to minimize preventable deaths, post-surgical complications,...

Click here to access the article. Introduction: According to different authors, cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) incidence can be as high as 20–50%. This complication...

Click here to access the article. Estimating thresholds when a threshold effect exists has important applications in biomedical research. However, models/methods commonly used in the biomedical...

Click here to access the article. Introduction: Body temperature is essential for diagnosing, managing, and following multiple medical conditions. There are several methods and devices to...

Click here to access the article. Abstract: The development of new extracorporeal blood purification (EBP) techniques has led to increased application in clinical practice but also...

Click here to access the article. The microcirculation describes the network of the smallest vessels in our cardiovascular system. On a microcirculatory level, oxygen delivery is determined by...

Click here to access the article. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the correlation between the number of bypassed vessels, the duration of Cardiopulmonary bypass, blood transfusion...

Click here to access the article. Objectives: The use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in cardiac surgery is a major risk factor for postoperative bleeding. We hypothesized that consumptive...

Click here to access the article. Background: New era of cardiac surgery aims to provide an enhanced postoperative recovery through the implementation of every step of the process. Thus,...