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Background
Postoperative critical care management is an integral part of cardiac surgery that contributes directly to clinical outcomes. In the United States there remains considerable variability in the critical care infrastructure for cardiac surgical programs. There is little published data investigating the impact of a dedicated cardiac surgical intensive care service.
Methods
A retrospective...
Background
A new, self‐contained, digital, continuous pump‐driven chest drainage system is compared in a randomized control trial to a traditional wall‐suction system in cardiac surgery.
Methods
One hundred and twenty adult elective cardiac patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and/or valve surgery were randomized to the study or control group. Both groups had similar pre/intra‐operative...
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